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back to dianne feinstein. >> stephanie: right, what was i saying? [ laughter ] >> stephanie: i'm not sure if it's drinking or early on set, but whatever. i frequently don't know where i am. >> early onset admiral stockdale is what you have got. >> stephanie: i sometimes pause and i don't recognize you two. oh! okay. okay. anyway, yeah, he just -- so he was just being a douche, basically. >> he was. >> stephanie: she was talking about -- they are obviously debating reinstating the assault ban weapons. >> i'm not a sixth grader. i walked in. i saw people shot. i have looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons. i have seen the bullets that implode implode. sandy hook youngsters were dismembered. it's fine you want to lecture me on the constitution. just know i have been here for a long time. i have passed on a number of bills. i studied the constitution myself. i am reasonably well educated and i thank you for the lecture. >> stephanie: rock and role! [ cheers and applause ] >> nobody lights lighters anymore. they light their cell phones.
back to dianne feinstein. >> stephanie: right, what was i saying? [ laughter ] >> stephanie: i'm not sure if it's drinking or early on set, but whatever. i frequently don't know where i am. >> early onset admiral stockdale is what you have got. >> stephanie: i sometimes pause and i don't recognize you two. oh! okay. okay. anyway, yeah, he just -- so he was just being a douche, basically. >> he was. >> stephanie: she was talking about -- they are obviously...
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the national rifle association afternooned an attack on senator feinstein, and they said, senator feinstein has been trying to ban guns from law-abiding citizens for decades. it's disappointing but not surprising that she's once again focused on curtailing the constitution. curtailing the constitution. karl, what is getting lost in translation here? >> i think the message that dianne feinstein or many others would say to the n ra you can have as many all assault weapons you want access to as long as you join our military. we're talking about not wanting every day citizens to have access to the firearms that are used in the field of war. it's pretty basic. it was the law of the land until it expired under george w. bush. even george w. supported reinstating the assault weapon ban. but it was the republicans in the senate who stood in the way. which is why it makes this compromise on the filibuster all the more perplexing. i think we need to look at the assault weapons and magazines for these guns. they'll do everything they can in washington, which is fighting back and pushing back on an com
the national rifle association afternooned an attack on senator feinstein, and they said, senator feinstein has been trying to ban guns from law-abiding citizens for decades. it's disappointing but not surprising that she's once again focused on curtailing the constitution. curtailing the constitution. karl, what is getting lost in translation here? >> i think the message that dianne feinstein or many others would say to the n ra you can have as many all assault weapons you want access to...
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big fight between harry reid and senator dianne feinstein. he says there won't be a vote on the assault weapon's ban, she is accusing him of breaking his word. and on the republican side reince priebus is in a spat with former republican chair michael steele. yesterday michael steele went on the radio show for andrea tontarose who is a contributor to fox news. >> michael steele who would win in a steel cage match, you or reince priebus? >> oh, no question i would clean his clock. >> what would you use the sleeper hold or -- >> just -- just one knock on the head. it's done it's over. >> no pile driver needed? >> no that's just way too much energy for this. >> bill: so then she asked him about reince priebus, saying well, michael steele made a lot of mistakes. he was a terrible chair -- i'm paraphrasing here of course. he accused him of running the party into too much debt and basically bankrupting the party, and not doing anything about a 50-state strategy, which reince priebus said he invented. >> i was laughing at some of these numb nuts say
big fight between harry reid and senator dianne feinstein. he says there won't be a vote on the assault weapon's ban, she is accusing him of breaking his word. and on the republican side reince priebus is in a spat with former republican chair michael steele. yesterday michael steele went on the radio show for andrea tontarose who is a contributor to fox news. >> michael steele who would win in a steel cage match, you or reince priebus? >> oh, no question i would clean his clock....
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but senator feinstein knows what she is doing. she authored the original bill, which had its flaws because it was too easy for gun manufacturers to make minor changes. she has tightened up on that. i think the number is 257 semi automatic weapons which would not be covered by her bill just to make sure that, you know people can say -- people can't say this is banning all guns or confiscating all guns kind of approach. she is clear in what is and what is not covered up this legislation. she has written it and defined it very very carefully. i will tell you something else about senator feinstein and i know her very well. i have been on -- she is a good friend of mine, but i have been on both sides of issues with her despiting alongside of her on some issues and opposing her on some issues. and she is one tough cookie. she is one very smart legislator and very effective legislator. she knows the senate and the ledge legislative process better than anybody. and i say all of those people who say that there is no way an assault weapons
but senator feinstein knows what she is doing. she authored the original bill, which had its flaws because it was too easy for gun manufacturers to make minor changes. she has tightened up on that. i think the number is 257 semi automatic weapons which would not be covered by her bill just to make sure that, you know people can say -- people can't say this is banning all guns or confiscating all guns kind of approach. she is clear in what is and what is not covered up this legislation. she has...
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dianne feinstein's ban was small. leaving on the mark 2200 types of guns. you could still have a mini assault rifle after dianne feinstein's ban would have taken place. she was taking a small bite out of crime. it's not like she was trying to ban all assault weapons from the market. you could still own a mini assault we will. >> john: not to say nothing about the assault weapons still floating out there because no one is coming to take away your gun. didn't the bill exempt a lot of weapons that a lot of gun control would like to see banned. it was not the most fierce ban we've heard of before. >> that's absolutely true. what we need, and i'm a gun owner, i'm strong believer of the second amendment but when i go for a duck hunting license i have to agree to have no more than three rounds in my shotgun to protect the duck population. yet congress won't even take a vote on limiting the rounds in these high capacity ammunition clips. law enforcement are limited 13 to 17 rounds in their service weapons and congress said it's perfectly fine for criminals to have
dianne feinstein's ban was small. leaving on the mark 2200 types of guns. you could still have a mini assault rifle after dianne feinstein's ban would have taken place. she was taking a small bite out of crime. it's not like she was trying to ban all assault weapons from the market. you could still own a mini assault we will. >> john: not to say nothing about the assault weapons still floating out there because no one is coming to take away your gun. didn't the bill exempt a lot of...
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dianne feinstein is somehow the enemy here is amazing. when the guns are doing the killing, and feinstein is trying to stop them. but what does it say to you that the nra is using this as an opportunity to encourage people to buy more guns. >> clearly the bottom line for the nra is gun sales. they represent gun manufacturers. and the more they make statements like this at horribly tone deaf moments, i think they fall slowly even further and further out of touch with main stream america. >> michael: a new poll out today found that americans worry more about being the victim of gun violence than losing their job or paying their mortgage. and 65% support an assault weapons ban. you are in this fight every day. do you feel the tide is turning right now? >> absolutely i feel the tide is turning. we're still having our phones ring off of the hooks in our office. new people trying to engage with us that are asking what they can do. new offices in capitol hill are reaching out and finding some ground to compromise on. americans are seeing that th
dianne feinstein is somehow the enemy here is amazing. when the guns are doing the killing, and feinstein is trying to stop them. but what does it say to you that the nra is using this as an opportunity to encourage people to buy more guns. >> clearly the bottom line for the nra is gun sales. they represent gun manufacturers. and the more they make statements like this at horribly tone deaf moments, i think they fall slowly even further and further out of touch with main stream america....
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senator dyne -- dianne feinstein. >> this is renewed every three months. they must go into court, and this is that renewal. >> stephanie: and that's the -- you know -- people -- some people are saying overreach. i heard one expert say that this is absolutely overreaching. people like feinstein are saying no, senator durbin of illinois. >> we want to keep america safe but we don't want to compromise our freedoms as individuals. >> i totally agree with that. >> stephanie: right. but that's the fine line. the vaporless lindsey graham on this subject. >> i hope the american people appreciate we are at war, because i sure as well do. >> stephanie: that's the problem. it's always wording. >> we were at war in world war ii. >> i don't know that we're at war right now. we're just defending ourselves. >> stephanie: can you be at war against a tactic? chris hi. >> caller: i agree with that last caller. i just don't understand what people are so paranoid about. every month they collect your phone records. it's called your phone bill. it's out there. what are you doin
senator dyne -- dianne feinstein. >> this is renewed every three months. they must go into court, and this is that renewal. >> stephanie: and that's the -- you know -- people -- some people are saying overreach. i heard one expert say that this is absolutely overreaching. people like feinstein are saying no, senator durbin of illinois. >> we want to keep america safe but we don't want to compromise our freedoms as individuals. >> i totally agree with that. >>...
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i bet feinstein will have a few choice words for him. blue ghosts says we can thank harry for not fixing the filibuster and removing the executes for not removing the ban. the party has crap ideas. democrats have solutions and are weenies >> bill: and no spine. so republicans have the spine. >> that's a good point. no ideas. democrats have the ideas but no spine. again, you can't -- you will never win. right? unless you take it to a vote unless you force it to a vote. it's just like a team not going out on the field before the game. at least you've got to play the damn game. >> you can't win if you don't play >> bill: jack, help us out. >> i don't think i can, bill. i am so incensed. i think if dianne wants to prove a point, the first time the senate gets ready to act she ought to invoke a real filibuster like rand paul did and start talking. >> bill: that's a good idea. you can do a filibuster to oppose something. i wonder if you can do a filibuster to force a vote on something. >> caller: why couldn't you. >> bill: i don't think it's e
i bet feinstein will have a few choice words for him. blue ghosts says we can thank harry for not fixing the filibuster and removing the executes for not removing the ban. the party has crap ideas. democrats have solutions and are weenies >> bill: and no spine. so republicans have the spine. >> that's a good point. no ideas. democrats have the ideas but no spine. again, you can't -- you will never win. right? unless you take it to a vote unless you force it to a vote. it's just like...
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intelligence committee chairwoman dianne feinstein said despite reports drones have killed hundreds of civilians -- >> the figures we've obtained from the executive branch which we have done our utmost to verify confirm that the number of civilian casualties that have resulted from such strikes each year has typically been in the single digits. >> john: which would make anyone opposed to the drone war killing civilians feel so much better. on the plus side, senator feinstein provided plans to provide oversight of the drone war. >> i also intend to review proposals for regulation -- excuse me, for legislation to ensure that drone strikes are carried out in a manner consistent with our values. and that the proposal to create and an na log of the foreign intelligence surveillance court to review the conduct of such strikes. >> john: it is worth noting a 2012 poll shows americans already think drone strikes are consistent with our values. nearly four out of five adults approve the use of drone strikes against terrorist suspects overseas. 2/3 suspected using drones to kill american terroris
intelligence committee chairwoman dianne feinstein said despite reports drones have killed hundreds of civilians -- >> the figures we've obtained from the executive branch which we have done our utmost to verify confirm that the number of civilian casualties that have resulted from such strikes each year has typically been in the single digits. >> john: which would make anyone opposed to the drone war killing civilians feel so much better. on the plus side, senator feinstein...
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does it astonish you to see dianne feinstein and john boehner in lock step for it and then we'll see actual conservatives and liberals, not democrats and republicans against this kind of spying? >> you know, i grew up -- i'm from a generation where it was a democrat who escalated the vietnam war and sent 58,000 americans to their death. and countless millions, south asian to their death. it was done by a democrat and then continued by the republican nixon. it was a democrat who spied on martin luther king. it was a democrat -- you can go down the whole list of things here. so am i surprised that dianne feinstein would be for the spying or that nancy pelosi says that the courageous whistle-blower, edward snowden should be prosecuted? nancy pelosi of san francisco? right? i just think that well, okay, that's right. just when i'm warming up to the pelosi family -- [ laughter ] i realize oh, yeah, that's right. they're really just part of the same problem. just a nicer version of it. >> john: i think that's good for democracy when we show the differences between conservatives and republi
does it astonish you to see dianne feinstein and john boehner in lock step for it and then we'll see actual conservatives and liberals, not democrats and republicans against this kind of spying? >> you know, i grew up -- i'm from a generation where it was a democrat who escalated the vietnam war and sent 58,000 americans to their death. and countless millions, south asian to their death. it was done by a democrat and then continued by the republican nixon. it was a democrat who spied on...
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has she like dianne feinstein called snowden a traitor? >> i don't know, but dianne feinstein has called it treason. >> i'll just say she doesn't know the meaning of treason as defined in our constitution, and we could go into that if we had time. she should know it but she doesn't know it. it's a slander for her to say that. but what it does show is that our system of oversight that came in as a direct result of the exposÉs of watergate and the pentagon papers and the church committee of 1975, these were intended to provide balance where the committee has failed. that's true for both republicans and democrats. for high level democrats the leadership to be denouncing snowden in this space rather than focusing on what he has revealed shows the structure of checks and balances has simply disintegrated. that means that our democracy is very much in question. this is, i think, a chance perhaps to begin to get some of that back, and that means putting pressure on people like pelosi and feinstein and others not just john boehner, and facing the
has she like dianne feinstein called snowden a traitor? >> i don't know, but dianne feinstein has called it treason. >> i'll just say she doesn't know the meaning of treason as defined in our constitution, and we could go into that if we had time. she should know it but she doesn't know it. it's a slander for her to say that. but what it does show is that our system of oversight that came in as a direct result of the exposÉs of watergate and the pentagon papers and the church...
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and feinstein's argument was look, we have limits on the first amendment. child porn is illegal. and then look at the controversial of textbooks and what's going on in your home state of texas. grassley made the point that the burden is on those who are trying to limit constitutional rights and not those who are trying to defend the rights. that's a counterpoint but an interesting argument. >> michael: the bill passed committee, but will it pass the senate? >> no, this bill won't pass the senate. there are too many red-state democrats democrats who are up for election in 2014. west virginia is a case study in that. this is the most controversial gun measure that has gotten out of committee and it will probably not pass the senate. >> michael: and ultimately do you think we'll get anything? what do you think will come out of the congress? >> yeah, i think we will get something. there were three--they've been working on this to two weeks holding hearings. there have been three bills and there is the chuck schumer bill which he has some republican support at first but then some repu
and feinstein's argument was look, we have limits on the first amendment. child porn is illegal. and then look at the controversial of textbooks and what's going on in your home state of texas. grassley made the point that the burden is on those who are trying to limit constitutional rights and not those who are trying to defend the rights. that's a counterpoint but an interesting argument. >> michael: the bill passed committee, but will it pass the senate? >> no, this bill won't...
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dianne feinstein, saxby chambliss have come out in support of the program. harry reid. right? everybody is out to chill. this is nothing new. the white house defends this. the executive branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch are all saying no big deal. >> true, and it's interesting the president clearly has defenders on this. but here is what the critics say. they say the executive branch is doing this. they go to this fisa court. they have made 1,788 requests to the fisa court to do this. guess how many times the fisa court has said no? >> not once. >> not once. if you are looking to the judicial to be an independent oversight of the executive request, it doesn't look like they are doing that. then you go to the congress and you do have serious and respected members of congress saying that they have been very alarmed by this. ron wyden of oregon has been talking about this. >> and mark eudall of colorado. >> these are serious peek talking about this. they talked in the past in the most cryptic ways because they were prohibited from confirming or releasing what
dianne feinstein, saxby chambliss have come out in support of the program. harry reid. right? everybody is out to chill. this is nothing new. the white house defends this. the executive branch, the legislative branch and the judicial branch are all saying no big deal. >> true, and it's interesting the president clearly has defenders on this. but here is what the critics say. they say the executive branch is doing this. they go to this fisa court. they have made 1,788 requests to the fisa...
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in the senate only dianne feinstein's intelligence committee has been briefed but feinstein has long argued that based on those briefings civilian casualties are very low. here she is in 2011. >> the collateral damage is greatly reduced beyond what you may read in the press. i have asked please please, please can i release these numbers? the answer is no, they're classified. that's about as far as i could go on that. >> jennifer: and today she still didn't realize numbers. she did say though, that civilian deaths were in the single digits. but one of brennan's loudest critics called for more information about the strikes specifically ron widen wanted to know when the government is authorized to target americans if those americans are thought to have ties to terrorists? >> what do you think needs to be done to ensure that members of the public understand more about when the government thinks it's allow to kill them? >> i have been a strong proponent of being open as possible in these programs as far as what we're doing. what we need to do to optimize transparency and optimize secrecy
in the senate only dianne feinstein's intelligence committee has been briefed but feinstein has long argued that based on those briefings civilian casualties are very low. here she is in 2011. >> the collateral damage is greatly reduced beyond what you may read in the press. i have asked please please, please can i release these numbers? the answer is no, they're classified. that's about as far as i could go on that. >> jennifer: and today she still didn't realize numbers. she did...
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senator feinstein said she wants to dry up these weapons. he's got a gun that's several hundred years old and could fire it if he wanted to. those assault weapons are going to be around in 300 years too. the technology will far outstrip them, but it's going to be difficult to dry up the supply of those weapons. >> cenk: how do we come to a reasonable conclusion, let ray keep his gun at the same time these a.r.15s we've got an ocean of them. i get the people are worried that the government doesn't want them to take your weapons, et cetera, so what's the middle ground? >> i think that what we're going to see is the assault weapons ban will ultimately be dropped from the proposal and maybe they'll get something on universal background checks. there's growing support for that, even with the n.r.a. in private conversations with various senators. i think the compromise will be we might see some gun control laws, probably not going to see an assault weapons ban. >> cenk: appreciate it. when we come back, an unfortunate case of a man beaten to death
senator feinstein said she wants to dry up these weapons. he's got a gun that's several hundred years old and could fire it if he wanted to. those assault weapons are going to be around in 300 years too. the technology will far outstrip them, but it's going to be difficult to dry up the supply of those weapons. >> cenk: how do we come to a reasonable conclusion, let ray keep his gun at the same time these a.r.15s we've got an ocean of them. i get the people are worried that the government...
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>> stephanie: congress will reject senator feinstein's wrong-headed approach. a lot of people think that is true, but i hope not. >> no weapon is taken from anyone. the purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time. >> stephanie: my formally republican sister wrote a great letter to her representative in virginia about this. because when you go through one at a time the president's proposals, they make sense to any normal sensible person. >> yeah. >> stephanie: senator feinstein again. >> the message to democrats is see what your silence does? there will be more of these. >> stephanie: my sister was talking to british friends that just don't understand it after newtown. they said i don't understand why this continues to happen in america. >> around the world. >> stephanie: well, they just happened to have british friends. senator feinstein again. >> if anyone asks can you win this? the answer is we don't know. it's so uphill. >> stephanie: it is just sad. my sister is going through one thing after another going why on earth wouldn't you be for this
>> stephanie: congress will reject senator feinstein's wrong-headed approach. a lot of people think that is true, but i hope not. >> no weapon is taken from anyone. the purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time. >> stephanie: my formally republican sister wrote a great letter to her representative in virginia about this. because when you go through one at a time the president's proposals, they make sense to any normal sensible person. >> yeah. >>...
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dianne feinstein told me i voted in favor of filibuster reform. she did but a very weak form of it that does nothing to actually reform the senate filibuster rules. you don't even have to stand in the senate, like jimmy stewart the talking filibuster. you can threaten a filibuster. what she voted for would not do anything to resolve that. without leaders like feinstein who is very well respected seen as a centrist, institutionalist, without her it goes nowhere and she is showing no signs of changing her mind. she came out of the early gun debate there moaning about oh, my god we need 60 votes for everything. lady you didn't even vote to change the rules. that's where she is on this. >> i think we have to stop the tour there with lady, you didn't even vote to change the rules. joe garofoli. >> that will be on twitter soon, i'm sure. >> joe garofoli, you can read joe and his blogs there and his articles and everything about joe garofoli. thanks so much for being on the show. still to come, we held him off as long as we could but today brett erlich g
dianne feinstein told me i voted in favor of filibuster reform. she did but a very weak form of it that does nothing to actually reform the senate filibuster rules. you don't even have to stand in the senate, like jimmy stewart the talking filibuster. you can threaten a filibuster. what she voted for would not do anything to resolve that. without leaders like feinstein who is very well respected seen as a centrist, institutionalist, without her it goes nowhere and she is showing no signs of...
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the strongest condemnation came from feinstein last night who said this is treason. he's not a whistle-blower. he's a treasonist guy. so i will be really interested to see if more people start to speak out in support of what he did or you know, the only person i heard that's talked about their supportive of snowden is tom massie in the house who is a big libertarian from kentucky. >> bill: has any democratic senator? >> i haven't heard that. if they have, i haven't seen it. >> bill: bob we miss russ feingold. >> this is going to be an opportunity for some members. rank and file members, not going to be leadership because feinstein is supporting the president. john boehner is supporting the president on this. to step up to the spotlight. members of congress, when they have that opportunity, they don't miss it. so whether it's massey or some on the left, i think they'll be very loud. as we were talking before, congress won't be changing the law on this any time soon. >> bill: even ron wyden and mark udall who do have some real concerns about the nsa program and have ex
the strongest condemnation came from feinstein last night who said this is treason. he's not a whistle-blower. he's a treasonist guy. so i will be really interested to see if more people start to speak out in support of what he did or you know, the only person i heard that's talked about their supportive of snowden is tom massie in the house who is a big libertarian from kentucky. >> bill: has any democratic senator? >> i haven't heard that. if they have, i haven't seen it. >>...
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senator dianne feinstein is leading the charge with a new bill she introduced at a press conference today. >> of some us have been working to prevent gun violence for decades. together we are introducing legislation to help end the mass shootings that have devastated countless families and terrorized communities. >> john: the bill would ban the sale, transfer, manufacture or importation of 157 types of assault weapons currently available for purchase by civilians and ammunition magazines holding more than ten rounds. then there is what the bill doesn't do. >> it will not affect hunting or sporting firearms. we have tried to recognize legal hunting rights. we have tried to recognize legal defense rights. we have tried to recognize the right of a citizen to legally possess a weapon. no weapon is taken from anyone. >> john: and i'll take sound bytes fox news will never ever play for $5,000. although if you own an ak-47 with a 30-round clip and want to sell it to your best buddy under the new law your friend would have a pass a tyrranical background check. they say the new bill won't keep gun
senator dianne feinstein is leading the charge with a new bill she introduced at a press conference today. >> of some us have been working to prevent gun violence for decades. together we are introducing legislation to help end the mass shootings that have devastated countless families and terrorized communities. >> john: the bill would ban the sale, transfer, manufacture or importation of 157 types of assault weapons currently available for purchase by civilians and ammunition...
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i hope that's in the feinstein legislation. she made this point yesterday that they exempt something like 2,000 different kinds of guns and they name specifically and ban like 150 or 160. i may have my numbers a little bit off, but it's that wide the difference, but i would hope with those ones that are really banned that there will also be a provision that says that the manufacturers cannot tamper with them in order to get around the ban. we'll see when she lays out her legislation. john calling from tampa, florida. >> caller: good morning, i just had a comment with those two gentlemen who talked about australia. we're not australians, we're americans. and we have a constitution. if they want to live that way and move there, more power to them. i am in combat and i have seen weapons from large caliber to small caliber who can fire as many rounds as -- >> bill: that's because they have a high-capacity magazine right? >> caller: but if you are well trained, you can drop a 15-round magazine, and shoot maybe 15 seconds slower than
i hope that's in the feinstein legislation. she made this point yesterday that they exempt something like 2,000 different kinds of guns and they name specifically and ban like 150 or 160. i may have my numbers a little bit off, but it's that wide the difference, but i would hope with those ones that are really banned that there will also be a provision that says that the manufacturers cannot tamper with them in order to get around the ban. we'll see when she lays out her legislation. john...
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senator dianne feinstein will preside over the hearing. senator feinstein has proposed this bill and has been pushing an assault weapons ban for years. she also opposed big filibuster reform meaning she's helped pave the way for republicans to block her own bill. >>> even background checks could be doomed even though that doesn't have some -- does have some bipartisan support. democrat senators schumer and manchin did manage to come to an agreement with republicans tom coburn and mark kirk. but now they're at a breaking point because so far the measure does nothing to address the records of private sales. without tracking those receipts, background checks will function on little more than just the honor system. and so far republicans are not willing to negotiate on allowing the government to keep records on private sales. more bill press is coming up after the break. stay with us. (vo) this afternoon, current tv is the place for compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo
senator dianne feinstein will preside over the hearing. senator feinstein has proposed this bill and has been pushing an assault weapons ban for years. she also opposed big filibuster reform meaning she's helped pave the way for republicans to block her own bill. >>> even background checks could be doomed even though that doesn't have some -- does have some bipartisan support. democrat senators schumer and manchin did manage to come to an agreement with republicans tom coburn and mark...
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yeah senator feinstein treason like what you get for treason is execution. brilliant, terrific. i like the progressive senator from california. barbara boxer apparently another fraud. of course, falling right in line with president obama saying yes! spy on all of us. i remember barbara boxer. how she used to cry during the bush years. oh, my god they're spying on us. what obama is doing. oh, thank god they're spying on us. these people are total and utter frauds. they're not remotely progressive. all they are is yes we're part of the establishment and we're here to protect it at any costs. i think i'm pretty clear on that. let's go to our panel. ana, wes jayar i just had an event the other day. someone was telling me about how great barbara boxer is. all right. al franken, oh he's going to be so progressive. great to have him in the senate. he's out talking to minneapolis press saying i'm on the committee on privacy rights. i've really looked into this. this thing rocks. we need it. we need it! by the way you know, all of these guys, admitted there's something positive the gover
yeah senator feinstein treason like what you get for treason is execution. brilliant, terrific. i like the progressive senator from california. barbara boxer apparently another fraud. of course, falling right in line with president obama saying yes! spy on all of us. i remember barbara boxer. how she used to cry during the bush years. oh, my god they're spying on us. what obama is doing. oh, thank god they're spying on us. these people are total and utter frauds. they're not remotely...
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and dianne feinstein was the big supporter of that and i stopped supporting dianne feinstein then. i'm not voting for her anymore. and it's over this issue. >> yeah. >> caller: so i think -- >> stephanie: but then we get a republican senate? >> yeah, the problem is the only other alternative is to not vote -- >> the only other alternative is to primary her out with someone a little more on the left. that's what you thought. >> stephanie: whoever thought that al franken -- anyway eighteen minutes afterthe hour. we continue the "stephanie miller show." >> oh, come on you have got to admit this is cool! >> announcer: it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> with a distinctly satirical point of view. if you believe in state's rights but still believe in the drug war you must be high. >> only on current tv. ♪ ♪ oh, but ain't that america, for you and -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. ♪ ain't that america, home of the free, yeah ♪ >> stephanie: yeah. it is the -- >> wel
and dianne feinstein was the big supporter of that and i stopped supporting dianne feinstein then. i'm not voting for her anymore. and it's over this issue. >> yeah. >> caller: so i think -- >> stephanie: but then we get a republican senate? >> yeah, the problem is the only other alternative is to not vote -- >> the only other alternative is to primary her out with someone a little more on the left. that's what you thought. >> stephanie: whoever thought that...
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senator feinstein said we don't know if it's homegrown. some of it is centered around the significance of this time of year. people forget about it. we're reminded over and over again of the anti-government events that happened in april. they said beware the eyes of march but i think the eyes of april are far more damaging. the waco assault happened on april 19th. virginia tech happened on that day. oh columbine happened in april. and both virginia tech and the waco assault were on patriot day. today was patriot day. it happens to be on a monday. and it's also tax day today. you know, as the c.i.a. i know you're focused on the foreign threats of the country but is there reason to be concerned that given that pattern that this might an right-wingeds attack? >> i think there is. again, it's way to early to speculate. my--my first gut reaction was that it was not an international terrorist group. that this was likely perpetrated by a domestic group. that was my gut reaction not borne out of any knowledge. certainly there was no pre-knowledge
senator feinstein said we don't know if it's homegrown. some of it is centered around the significance of this time of year. people forget about it. we're reminded over and over again of the anti-government events that happened in april. they said beware the eyes of march but i think the eyes of april are far more damaging. the waco assault happened on april 19th. virginia tech happened on that day. oh columbine happened in april. and both virginia tech and the waco assault were on patriot day....
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crudely insulted two female united states senators, called hillary clinton a worthlessbitch and dianne feinstein a worthless whore. it is an outrage to have him in the chamber tonight. if john boehner had any respect for the members of congress or the president of the united states, he would prohibit ted nugent from attending. america deserves better. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] stephanie: hello, current tv land. our number one jackie schechner. for political geeks, it's like christmas morning, state of the union night. did you hear who's going to be there? ted nugent. >> bill press just called him a terd in the punch bowl. stephanie: there's a metal detector before you get in, right? just checking. >> if you threaten the president, under investigation which he was then probably not allowed to come to the state of the union. stephanie: one would think. i hope the secret service men go like this, watching you. >> they should prohibit him from coming. it seems a strange thing to allow. stephanie: it's a new level of disrespect for the president. >> and dangerous.
crudely insulted two female united states senators, called hillary clinton a worthlessbitch and dianne feinstein a worthless whore. it is an outrage to have him in the chamber tonight. if john boehner had any respect for the members of congress or the president of the united states, he would prohibit ted nugent from attending. america deserves better. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [ ♪ theme ♪ ] stephanie: hello, current tv land. our number one jackie...
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feinstein, who shepherded this bill said: i'm not putting this on feinstein. she was one of the few democrats who did try hard on this. apparently she thinks, harry reid thinks that the most votes they can get is 40 in the senate meaning that they have lost about 15 democratic senators. now you're going to say well, what can you do, the country set it right right? the country is so conservative. wrong again bang on sale of assault weapons 56% say ban them 56%. that apparently we don't live in a democracy. how about high capacity magazines, 59%, 60% among republicans. apparently we eliminate democracy. let me bring in a couple of reporters, ginger gibson and david as is suroda. david, let me start with you. democrats, do they mean to lose on purpose or are they the worst politicians in american history? >> no, i think they're not the worst politicians in american history. i think they're smart politicians, wiley politicians. the fix is in. if they wanted to ban assault weapons, if they wanted to go back to the ban that existed under bill clinton until 2004, the
feinstein, who shepherded this bill said: i'm not putting this on feinstein. she was one of the few democrats who did try hard on this. apparently she thinks, harry reid thinks that the most votes they can get is 40 in the senate meaning that they have lost about 15 democratic senators. now you're going to say well, what can you do, the country set it right right? the country is so conservative. wrong again bang on sale of assault weapons 56% say ban them 56%. that apparently we don't live in a...
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dianne feinstein said i'm open to every month having new oversight. but to say they are doing something illegal is not trust. so what did he blow the whistle on? i don't get it? it is wider than maybe we realized. >> all of the documents haven't been released yet. more and more is going to come out as this thing goes along. >> stephanie: and someone else said that maybe we should hold off on what we defy or vilify him for. >> exactly. >> stephanie: we have always said you have to be consisted, when they outed valley plain, to me that was clear treason, and people probably got killed because of that. that couldn't have been clearer to me. you know, this leak you go this clearly is a huge -- this -- people -- a lot of people could die. this is the largest national security leak in our history, and again, an yell ellsburg said nobody died from his leak, and maybe he was proven out on that and jacki was the person who brought that up yesterday, there was definitely a self grandizing portion of this. and it's like why are you looking to get away if you thi
dianne feinstein said i'm open to every month having new oversight. but to say they are doing something illegal is not trust. so what did he blow the whistle on? i don't get it? it is wider than maybe we realized. >> all of the documents haven't been released yet. more and more is going to come out as this thing goes along. >> stephanie: and someone else said that maybe we should hold off on what we defy or vilify him for. >> exactly. >> stephanie: we have always said...
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that's why i will vote for dianne feinstein's assault weapons ban. i'll vote for the ban because maintaining "law & order" is more important than satisfying conspiracy theories who believe in black helicopters and false flags. >> cenk: michael, on that last point, how sad is it that the guys who believe in the black helicopters and false flags won they won the day. >> michael: they won the day. gun laws got a little more lax for them today. what has to happen in the united states senate they have to stop legislation lating to the exception. that's what they're doing. it's taking the people who are--that feel one right of theirs is going to be infringed upon so god for bid they do away with any of the rights. that's what has to change. i don't know if reid is the guy to do it. that's impressive. but characters who come together to defeat this, the people who had a real good day today. he still sees them as the enemy. that's good that he voted for the feinstein bill. >> cenk: stay in the war room. i'm going to check in at midnight to see if you're stil
that's why i will vote for dianne feinstein's assault weapons ban. i'll vote for the ban because maintaining "law & order" is more important than satisfying conspiracy theories who believe in black helicopters and false flags. >> cenk: michael, on that last point, how sad is it that the guys who believe in the black helicopters and false flags won they won the day. >> michael: they won the day. gun laws got a little more lax for them today. what has to happen in the...
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let's talk about it the way that dianne feinstein did. is it impossible the way she said to fight the nra? >> it's not impossible to fight the nra. the senate made a mistake in bringing the assault weapons ban to the floor first. that's not only the hardest thing of all the ways we can--the proposals we're proposing or talking about for gun safety. it's not only the most difficult to past but it's the one that makes the least difference. first we're talking about background checks and then high capacity magazines and then trafficking weapons. i wish they wouldn't have brought this first because it's the easiest one to defeat. i think we'll still make progress on gun safety legislation but we can take on the nra. michael bloomberg has proven that a number of times just in recent history. you'll see example after example of people who are up front who do it unabashedly and are able to either win or retain our office because of it. >> michael: tell us who follow politics a little bit how this works. let's say all that comes out of this in a
let's talk about it the way that dianne feinstein did. is it impossible the way she said to fight the nra? >> it's not impossible to fight the nra. the senate made a mistake in bringing the assault weapons ban to the floor first. that's not only the hardest thing of all the ways we can--the proposals we're proposing or talking about for gun safety. it's not only the most difficult to past but it's the one that makes the least difference. first we're talking about background checks and...
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senate feinstein. >> terrorists will come after us if they can. and the only thing we have to deter this is good intelligence. >> michael: that's the exact argument the white house is using. in a statement that it depended the nsa program saying quote: quote:you. >> michael: it is true until boston there had not been a successful terrorist attack in the united states since 9/11. joining me now from atlanta is jason johnson the chief correspondent from 365.com jason of course welcome back inside "the war room." how upset should we be about this? it's been going on for seven years. there excellent been any lawsuit from anyone claiming to be targeted, and until boston no terrorist attacks. is it really that bad jason? >> yes, it's horrible. this is the disgusting orwellian state that the united states signed up for since 9/11. no president is going to put away the toys the previous president bought for him. it's clear that everything that george bush did, barack obama was not going to put those toys away. he just said he was going to play with them n
senate feinstein. >> terrorists will come after us if they can. and the only thing we have to deter this is good intelligence. >> michael: that's the exact argument the white house is using. in a statement that it depended the nsa program saying quote: quote:you. >> michael: it is true until boston there had not been a successful terrorist attack in the united states since 9/11. joining me now from atlanta is jason johnson the chief correspondent from 365.com jason of course...
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the bad news, senator feinstein apologized to senator cruz later. but hey she has to work with the guy. those people who were shot were harvey milk and senator marscone. >>> the riots erupted after the shooting of 16-year-old kimani gray. one officer was injured but behind this protest is a larger story. most people shot by police in in 2011 were black like, kimani gray or hispanic. and they are routinely detained by police. the police have been stopping and specificking frisking people in wholesale numbers. any of those stops could turn violent, even with just verbal resistence. and more than 86% of the people who have been stopped have been black or latino with many of the young men getting frisked over and over and over again. i'm pleased to welcome back to the show host of twi radio, elon james white and l. joy williams. thank you for coming back. >> thank you. >> john: just this tuesday at the city council complies commissioner ray kelly credited stop and frisk, the policy that i was just discussing about a sharp decrease in crime. is it worth
the bad news, senator feinstein apologized to senator cruz later. but hey she has to work with the guy. those people who were shot were harvey milk and senator marscone. >>> the riots erupted after the shooting of 16-year-old kimani gray. one officer was injured but behind this protest is a larger story. most people shot by police in in 2011 were black like, kimani gray or hispanic. and they are routinely detained by police. the police have been stopping and specificking frisking...
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feinstein said it's no big deal that we killed them and if you knew what we know. yeah, why don't you share. why don't you ask john bran anyone who's in front of you going to be the next head of the c.i.a. if you vote for him, what evidence did you have to kill awlkai and his 16-year-old son in a different strike, who is also a u.s. citizen. there are no coincidences. we killed him and another u.s. citizenual with him in a separate strike, we accidentally happened to kill someone else in his family, a 16-year-old, also a u.s. citizen. those questions didn't get asked. asked who made the decision to execute a 16-year-old u.s. citizen, was it you or someone else? >> weirdly the u.s. senators were polite and did not ask. they asked interesting questions including this question. >> i never believe it's better the to kill a terrorist than to detain him. we want to detain as many terrorists as possible to elicit the intelligence from them to stop terrorist attacks. we only use these authorities and capabilities as a last resort. >> cenk: oh, yeah. you wanted to retain hi
feinstein said it's no big deal that we killed them and if you knew what we know. yeah, why don't you share. why don't you ask john bran anyone who's in front of you going to be the next head of the c.i.a. if you vote for him, what evidence did you have to kill awlkai and his 16-year-old son in a different strike, who is also a u.s. citizen. there are no coincidences. we killed him and another u.s. citizenual with him in a separate strike, we accidentally happened to kill someone else in his...
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he said if you have one of the guns on feinstein's list you have to register it. what happens when you get a driver's license? they take your picture. >> it's auschwitz! >> yeah. we'll see what happens. >> stephanie: exactly. steve doocy fox and friends. >> you have the main stream media beating the drum all day long about how the republican-lead house -- >> the senate does nothing. >> yeah you never hear about how they haven't passed a budget in three and a half years something like that. it's all about those darn republicans in the house versus the president of the united states. >> stephanie: uh-huh. >> oh good grief. >> what was the point of that? >> stephanie: that it's the democrats in the senate that are obstructionists? [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> they filibustered more than any other senate in the history of the senate. >> but doocy conveniently forgot that. >> it was more of fox and friends attempt to try to make their audience feel like they are getting what they came there for. there is a liberal bias and only fox is going to give them the truth. they s
he said if you have one of the guns on feinstein's list you have to register it. what happens when you get a driver's license? they take your picture. >> it's auschwitz! >> yeah. we'll see what happens. >> stephanie: exactly. steve doocy fox and friends. >> you have the main stream media beating the drum all day long about how the republican-lead house -- >> the senate does nothing. >> yeah you never hear about how they haven't passed a budget in three and a...
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he should be prosecuted. >> i absolutely think they should be prosecuted. >> do you, senator feinstein? >> i do. >> what do you say? 866-55-press. i will tell you one thing: i don't think he should be prosecuted. i think he has done a public service. were there any lives put at risk because of what he revealed? no. was this really such a big deep dark secret? no. congress knew about it. the add miles per hourstration about it. the phone companies knew about it. the internet companies knew about it. everybody knew about it except us. they are getting our records. here is the deal, i really want to hear from you on this. what do you think should happen to edward snowden? here is the deal: we know that in this age of this -- we don't call it anymore war on terror but whatever you want to call it. right? in this dangerous times we live in we may have to sacrifice some little aspects of our right of privacy in order to keep ourselves safe. and we've already done so. we got surveillance cameras in the city streets. we know it. we accept it. we have surveillance cameras in every freakin 7-11
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. >> bill: senator feinstein, chair of the intelligence committee. barbara boxer, chair of -- environment. >> public works. >> senator feinstein in particular takes a lot of people under her wing. even when hillary clinton came, she'll just take them to lunch. this is how i run my office. here's what you do if you want to -- i can send you information if you want to do it like i do it. very helpful to new people of both parties. >> bill: she was very helpful to me when i moved here to washington. she's a good friend. and maybe we forget but i thought one of the most critical moments of the 2008 primary was remember when -- it was getting nasty between hillary clinton and barack obama. and dianne feinstein invited them both over to her house. >> i think i remember that. >> bill: remember that? and she welcomed them to her house and she said okay, you want a glass of wine? here it is. i'm leaving you alone. i'm going upstairs and you call me when its's over. and left the two of them down there to talk it out and say okay, we've got to cool the jets on
. >> bill: senator feinstein, chair of the intelligence committee. barbara boxer, chair of -- environment. >> public works. >> senator feinstein in particular takes a lot of people under her wing. even when hillary clinton came, she'll just take them to lunch. this is how i run my office. here's what you do if you want to -- i can send you information if you want to do it like i do it. very helpful to new people of both parties. >> bill: she was very helpful to me when i...
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suddenly, we have high-level government officials like dianne feinstein who wrote a column by the way in "the washington post" this morning about how she does see the need to change the rules regarding the nsa and the collection of data. the reason we see senator feinstein saying that is because of the snowden revelations and last week, the house vote which was so much closer than anyone anticipated when they were going to shut down this program and that we saw both liberal, democrats and very conservative republicans come together, come very close to passing a bill that would have dramatically changed the landscape for this data collection. in light of that and in light of public outrage, suddenly congress is saying well -- and the administration, we do need to change the program. in some ways, we're better off because our privacy will end up protected more than it has been. >> bill: crew is on the case. they're way out in front here. ask the department of justice to investigate whether or not director clapper, director of national intelligence lied to congress. it looks like he did.
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>> stephanie: senator dianne feinstein. that's not senator dianne feinstein. that's somebody else. >> oh, it is mitch mcconnell. >> the turtle. >> as a result of the administration's poor planning, i would argue political motives thousands of people were stuck on tarmacs over the last few days. >> stephanie: wait a minute. what are we doing here? we have dianne feinstein. we're still on the boston case. cut four. cut four. dianne feinstein was talking about the fbi. >> no. it is messed up. >> stephanie: okay. >> you're fired! >> stephanie: that still works. >> thank you. great. >> stephanie: senator rand paul said monday boston bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev should not be treated as an enemy combatant. it puts him at odds with some of his republican colleagues. this is one point where he makes sense and then suddenly, you'll be like wow that is right. everything else you said is wrong. but he said i see no reason why our constitution is not strong enough to convict this young man with a jury trial with the bill of rights. we do it to horrible people all the
>> stephanie: senator dianne feinstein. that's not senator dianne feinstein. that's somebody else. >> oh, it is mitch mcconnell. >> the turtle. >> as a result of the administration's poor planning, i would argue political motives thousands of people were stuck on tarmacs over the last few days. >> stephanie: wait a minute. what are we doing here? we have dianne feinstein. we're still on the boston case. cut four. cut four. dianne feinstein was talking about the...
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do i trust it more when al franken and dianne feinstein say it? yes! this is one point of view i think is valid. he says i understand the trade-offs here. but the intelligence community isn't keeping things from the american people because we don't trust them but once important security information is out there, they can do us arm. al franken made this point. it isn't -- it doesn't fall necessarily on partisan lines. he said that's why i find the snowden controversy so frustrating. i realize many americans don't trust their government. i wish i could change that and tell people the amazing things i witnessed during my 30 years in the c.i.a. i've never seen people work harder for that little money and long hours. people took it for granted their flaws would be scrutinized, successes ignored but i've been around along to know that government is immune to stories like me. the conspiracy buff. too busy howling in protest at the thought that their government could uncover how long they spent on the phone with their dear aunt. the government is not intereste
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fruits the background checks, and limit on high capacity magazines and then take a look at senator feinstein's bill. but i think the senate will take this up in regular order, and this will only be successful if as the president has said the american people speak out and speak up. this is the slaughter of innocents. is our role as parents. they didn't think we could change drunk driving laws, but mothers against drunk drivers did. >> jennifer: and i think this is another reason this was so powerful. one of the other things christine you mentioned that the poet is the first openly gay poet that has ever read at an inauguration. and i want you to listen to a sound bite from president obama speaking about gay americans. take a listen to this. [ applause ] >> obama: our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for many we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equality as well. >> jennifer: abc news says this is the first time a president has used the word gay in an inauguration, and he referred t
fruits the background checks, and limit on high capacity magazines and then take a look at senator feinstein's bill. but i think the senate will take this up in regular order, and this will only be successful if as the president has said the american people speak out and speak up. this is the slaughter of innocents. is our role as parents. they didn't think we could change drunk driving laws, but mothers against drunk drivers did. >> jennifer: and i think this is another reason this was...
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and i told you before do not count out dianne feinstein. she is one tough mama when it comes to getting her way on legislation. kathleen has a comment from chicago. here, the city that's been really racked with gun violence and gun deaths. hi, kathleen. >> caller: hi. how are you doing? thank you. let me get this in so everybody can hear this. carry robbins action you mentioned her name. she is the one from illinois, she's going to be my representative. >> bill: great. >> caller: okay. mayor bloomberg, thank god for him. he is the manual with the mouth and the money for the people that don't have the mouth and the money. and i am so glad we finally, getting people that's in their position to speak for us. you want our votes but when you get in there, you forget about our votes. all of these senators are scared to step up. i don't understand it, mr. press. how can you send our soldiers, men and women, off to war to go into other people's countries and fight to help keep them alive and keep them safe and right here in our country, we can't ev
and i told you before do not count out dianne feinstein. she is one tough mama when it comes to getting her way on legislation. kathleen has a comment from chicago. here, the city that's been really racked with gun violence and gun deaths. hi, kathleen. >> caller: hi. how are you doing? thank you. let me get this in so everybody can hear this. carry robbins action you mentioned her name. she is the one from illinois, she's going to be my representative. >> bill: great. >>...
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happy birthday. >> bill: i have been to previous birthday parties for dianne feinstein. so i haven't been invited to this one if there is one. boy, everywhere you look there are fascinating legal questions these days. can we really legally extradite edward snowden from hong kong or will he be able to hide out there forever? what is going on with all of the professional hit men in boston. but the biggest story comes out of florida where yesterday we learned that they have now seat adjurery in the george zimmerman case. and avery joining us on the line this morning. how are you? >> hey, bill, how are you doing? why weren't you invited to senator feinstein's birthday party. >> bill: since i wasn't invited i have to assume there isn't one. >> okay. >> bill: this jury how do they get away with only six people on the jury. >> yeah that's quirky about florida. this jury was selected less than 24 hours ago and there are pundits out there many of whom have never been in a courtroom, bill, have no idea -- and at least there won't be a hung jury. >> bill: oh, god. because they are
happy birthday. >> bill: i have been to previous birthday parties for dianne feinstein. so i haven't been invited to this one if there is one. boy, everywhere you look there are fascinating legal questions these days. can we really legally extradite edward snowden from hong kong or will he be able to hide out there forever? what is going on with all of the professional hit men in boston. but the biggest story comes out of florida where yesterday we learned that they have now seat adjurery...
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you had feinstein, dianne feinstein, senator feinstein come out this week. you had senator bennett come out this week. you've got, you know, klobachar and you go down the line. they have all said they would vote for the provision at some point or another. even senator durbin who has equivocated but said he would vote for it. he told vcnn that. schumer, this is a game of chicken. they should be holding out because if they eventually have to sacrifice it, it will be a big progressive concession. and the more attention is on this provision, the less attention is on something huge like the pathway to citizenship. the more spent on this fight are taking attention from other issues. they should at least be trying. >> bill: schumer was a big disappointment on this. it shouldn't be an issue. should not be an issue in this legislation. it should be automatic as far as i am concerned. kerry here, talking marriage equality, immigration reform as it relates to lgbt couples. give us a call if you want to join the conversation at 866-55-press. >> this is "the bill press s
you had feinstein, dianne feinstein, senator feinstein come out this week. you had senator bennett come out this week. you've got, you know, klobachar and you go down the line. they have all said they would vote for the provision at some point or another. even senator durbin who has equivocated but said he would vote for it. he told vcnn that. schumer, this is a game of chicken. they should be holding out because if they eventually have to sacrifice it, it will be a big progressive concession....
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senator feinstein will bring it up as an amendment. and vice president biden says he plans to keep pushing. today biden appears at an zent at 11:00 am eastern in new york city with mayor michael bloomberg, and together with families of newtown, connecticut they are going to demand that congress take action on common sense legislation like requiring background checks for gun sales. benjamin netanyahu give president obama an interesting gift yesterday. a 2000 year old stone with a tiny chip engraved with israel's and the united states declaration of independence. hillary clinton still not running for president in 2016 but that is not stopping pollsters from asking how she would do in a new quinnipiac poll said she would do well in florida. her favorablity in florida is high too and twitter turns seven today. what do you give the social network that has everything, i say maybe it's name on a grain of rice. >> hal: and maybe a hashtag. >> we're back after the break. marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you
senator feinstein will bring it up as an amendment. and vice president biden says he plans to keep pushing. today biden appears at an zent at 11:00 am eastern in new york city with mayor michael bloomberg, and together with families of newtown, connecticut they are going to demand that congress take action on common sense legislation like requiring background checks for gun sales. benjamin netanyahu give president obama an interesting gift yesterday. a 2000 year old stone with a tiny chip...
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. >> they are waiting to hear from barbara boxer and dianne feinstein from california as to what they will offer. the hill reports that senator mckulsky will throw in a can of hair spray in ode. >> i think that's a tragedy. >> if you ever wanted today travel to north korea and couldn't get into the country -- >> say no more. >> you now know. >> not even on my bucket list. >> now, you are going to know how to get around. google yesterday added details of the secluded nation onto google maps, roads, businesses trains. before that, it was just a giant white spot with no details. google said it created the map with the help of citizen cartographers cartographers, an log maps and secret sources within the country to get it done. it is now on google maps. >> where do you want to go kids? disney world? grand canyon? north korea. >> the sad part is the people of north korea won't be able to access it. >> this is the slow creep of the internet into that country. it's undeniable and they can't keep it out in a major way. >> you need to request your next assignment to get there, to north korea.
. >> they are waiting to hear from barbara boxer and dianne feinstein from california as to what they will offer. the hill reports that senator mckulsky will throw in a can of hair spray in ode. >> i think that's a tragedy. >> if you ever wanted today travel to north korea and couldn't get into the country -- >> say no more. >> you now know. >> not even on my bucket list. >> now, you are going to know how to get around. google yesterday added details of...
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but secondly you have got diane feinstein who one would remember historically was there in san francisco when harvey millford was shot. and she is pushing legislation to ban high-capacity magazines, ban assault weapons, and require extensive background checks everything the president said she wanted. and she is no slouch when it comes to senate policy. she has been there a very long time, and has a lot of power behind her. >> she was the author -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> again, you do have the filibuster majority in the senate -- >> jennifer: well, let's talk about that. donnie, the second-term agenda includes immigration reform climate change legislation, knock on wood and includes getting the fiscal house in order. >> and jobs jobs jobs. >> jennifer: yes. but if we get filibuster reform will the president be able to get his agenda through, or will the house block everything? especially guns? >> the question is whether they are going to have to step in and save the children that they have become. speaker speaker boehner needs to ask himself does he want to cow town to this group in
but secondly you have got diane feinstein who one would remember historically was there in san francisco when harvey millford was shot. and she is pushing legislation to ban high-capacity magazines, ban assault weapons, and require extensive background checks everything the president said she wanted. and she is no slouch when it comes to senate policy. she has been there a very long time, and has a lot of power behind her. >> she was the author -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> again,...
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nancy pelosi elizabeth warren kathleen seblius, dianne feinstein. it was a great step to elect our first black president in 2008, but as emilyiesemily's list said, let's pull together and elect our first female president in 2016. >> that's my parting shot for today. >> that's a show for this week. chris moody from yahoo news on monday from south carolina to take a look at that big run-off between mark stanford. have a great weekend for example. see you back here monday morning. >> this is "the bill press show." [ music ] [♪ theme music ♪] >> hello tv land happy friday everybody. sexy liberal john fugelsang in all three hours today. jim ward out sick today. good morning jacki schechner. >> woe, good morning, that's a lot of information. >> stephanie: right. >> 100% was jim and then 3,000% was john. >> stephanie: and i'll talk about being on cnn last night
nancy pelosi elizabeth warren kathleen seblius, dianne feinstein. it was a great step to elect our first black president in 2008, but as emilyiesemily's list said, let's pull together and elect our first female president in 2016. >> that's my parting shot for today. >> that's a show for this week. chris moody from yahoo news on monday from south carolina to take a look at that big run-off between mark stanford. have a great weekend for example. see you back here monday morning....
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. >> jennifer: progressives are pushing for a ban and diane feinstein says she'll introduce on assault weapon ban later this month. john mccain expressed his doubts. >> do you think an assault weapons ban can pass the congress? >> no. >> do you think it should? >> no. >> jennifer: now the question is without republican support is the president going to push for a ban any ways? so from his progressive basis point of view he has a mandate and he should use it. 62% of americans do support a ban. from the white house's perspective pushing an assault weapon's ban is a risky proposition. the president addressed the issue today in its press conference. listen carefully to what he says. >> we have to have stronger background checks that we can do a much better job in terms of keeping these magazine clips with high capacity out of the hands of folks who shouldn't have them. assault weapon's ban is meaningful. that those are things i continue to believe make sense. okay. will all of them get through this congress? i don't know. >> jennifer: sort of interesting the way he says that. the way he co
. >> jennifer: progressives are pushing for a ban and diane feinstein says she'll introduce on assault weapon ban later this month. john mccain expressed his doubts. >> do you think an assault weapons ban can pass the congress? >> no. >> do you think it should? >> no. >> jennifer: now the question is without republican support is the president going to push for a ban any ways? so from his progressive basis point of view he has a mandate and he should use it....
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senator dianne feinstein said it's clear a red line has been crossed and action must be taken to prevent larger scale use. the administration has not yet made a decision but in a letter to senator carl levin today it called for an u.n. investigation. and the u.n. is already on it. secretary ban ki-moon has called for a task force to look into the allegations. but the only problem syria president omar bashar is not letting them in. be still the white house says it is waiting for more concrete evidence before making a decision. "the new york times" quoted a senior official saying, it is precisely because this is a red line that we have to establish with air tight certainty that this happened. the bar on the united states is higher on anyone else both because of our capabilities and because of our history in iraq. joining me now lawrence korb, senior fell low at the center for american progress and former assistant secretary of defense he joins us from washington, d.c. larry, welcome inside "the war room"." >> it's good to be back. >> michael: how much does the legacy of iraq weigh on him i
senator dianne feinstein said it's clear a red line has been crossed and action must be taken to prevent larger scale use. the administration has not yet made a decision but in a letter to senator carl levin today it called for an u.n. investigation. and the u.n. is already on it. secretary ban ki-moon has called for a task force to look into the allegations. but the only problem syria president omar bashar is not letting them in. be still the white house says it is waiting for more concrete...
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he has been reprimanded not only just dianne feinstein, but also lindsey graham and others. like at hillary clinton, al franken, elizabeth warren the senate is different. you get to the senate and people hold their head down for like the first six years. they move they are a work horse not a show horse. ted cruz is not like that and i think it's only a matter of days before he steps on his you know what? >> michael: yeah, he went over to mary landrieu's desk here 4:00 am -- after he tied china and the un and abortion together and reprimanded him, and then she walked away and supposedly he was just sort of chuckling as she walked away. >> the senate for better or worse, i guess we still have to call at it gentle person's club if you will. unlike the house they really treat themselves with respect and that counts for a lot. that's why cruz's attitude flagrantly just violating all of the rules of decor um and respect for other members has turned people off on both sides of the aisle -- the worst of the tea party. the worst of the tea party. >> michael: it's incredible and maybe
he has been reprimanded not only just dianne feinstein, but also lindsey graham and others. like at hillary clinton, al franken, elizabeth warren the senate is different. you get to the senate and people hold their head down for like the first six years. they move they are a work horse not a show horse. ted cruz is not like that and i think it's only a matter of days before he steps on his you know what? >> michael: yeah, he went over to mary landrieu's desk here 4:00 am -- after he tied...
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meeting with our representatives and then we had a great press conference where senator boxer and senator feinstein, representative pelosi, and they talked very glowingly about moms who were there. 250 moms were there, and we had more than 100 meetings with our legislators today to demand common sense gun laws. >> michael: a lot of the names you just mentioned are names we would expect to be in favor of changing the gun laws we have now. what about representatives on the hill who are opposed to these gun laws? >> live in indiana, so i had four different meetings with representatives and senator staff from my state, and the democrats and republicans alike are very progun in the state of indiana. but they hear constantly from members of the nra and gun lobbyists who tell them that, you know, we are trying to ban all guns or take away the second amendment and we need to come more often and in district and make the calls to show that we are 80 million strong, the nra is 4 million strong and if we ban together we'll make a difference. >> michael: you mentioned that some of these meetings were emotional.
meeting with our representatives and then we had a great press conference where senator boxer and senator feinstein, representative pelosi, and they talked very glowingly about moms who were there. 250 moms were there, and we had more than 100 meetings with our legislators today to demand common sense gun laws. >> michael: a lot of the names you just mentioned are names we would expect to be in favor of changing the gun laws we have now. what about representatives on the hill who are...
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he dare suggest that dianne feinstein didn't know her way around the constitution. he has been told to cool his jets and stop being such a jerk. so as a democrat i say bring it on. as a republican i say, boy, if i want to lose go ted go. >> michael: yeah, and to think he is unpopular within his own caucus also is something that we shouldn't forget about. he has been so brazen in the way he has taken on republicans and democrats. and he hasn't been there for more than three or four months either and i don't believe that david vitter actually looks in the mirror and thinks he is going to be the next president but i'll take that up with you for another time. when you look on the about ted page on his website, there is no mention of canada. why do you think that is? >> first of all the tea partiers will definitely give him a pass. he could have been born on the moon, and he acts like it, and they would give him a pass. but when are the republicans going to learn? didn't they learn from christine o'donnell, or sharon engel or richard mourdock, these tea party candidates
he dare suggest that dianne feinstein didn't know her way around the constitution. he has been told to cool his jets and stop being such a jerk. so as a democrat i say bring it on. as a republican i say, boy, if i want to lose go ted go. >> michael: yeah, and to think he is unpopular within his own caucus also is something that we shouldn't forget about. he has been so brazen in the way he has taken on republicans and democrats. and he hasn't been there for more than three or four months...
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since then he along with vice president joe biden and senator feinstein have tried to make that reality. the n ra has essentially said, yes, we care about kids, but what we really need to protect are our guns. and the gun lobbyists announceed in a controversial way to do both. and there is another group in need of protection. it's gay citizens. first to guns. in one week from today the senate will debate gun control today. today they rolled out their preemptive response. the school shield task force funded by the nra a 225-page report on how to improve school safety. here is the condensed version. fill them chalk full of guns. asa hutchinson, a former congressman, leads the task force. he laid out the findings with an unusually heavy security presence. amazing. talking about indulging in hero fantasies. the crux of his plan is to get states to introduce bills that would allow or require teachers to pack heat. >> states need to consider changing the law so that it allows the firearm to be carried by school personnel when they go through this model training program. and so we've attached
since then he along with vice president joe biden and senator feinstein have tried to make that reality. the n ra has essentially said, yes, we care about kids, but what we really need to protect are our guns. and the gun lobbyists announceed in a controversial way to do both. and there is another group in need of protection. it's gay citizens. first to guns. in one week from today the senate will debate gun control today. today they rolled out their preemptive response. the school shield task...
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but then i can't help when i hear people that i trust whethe% it is al franken or dianne feinstein, if we get hit again because of that tool, rand paul, say good-bye to all of our civil liberties. and i include glen greenwald in that jack a lope. jim, you're sometimes on the side of this, i understand. that's the piece i was thinking. i think it might have been tomasky. talking about this. that's what he really fears is that if we get hit again, forget any of our civil liberties. that's why i think there has to be a balance between, you know, this nsa stuff and security. and i know i will get more letters calling me a neocon. jim, you have to believe there are terrorists throughout that want to kill us. >> sure. >> stephanie: little disconcerting there are the prison breaks, al-qaeda people everywhere and anniversary of 9-11 is coming up this sunday. the end of ramadan. i think there is a reason. >> a month from sunday. >> stephanie: right. there was some reason they thought yesterday might have been a target. it obviously wasn't. we're going to talk to adam schiff. he can't tell us ev
but then i can't help when i hear people that i trust whethe% it is al franken or dianne feinstein, if we get hit again because of that tool, rand paul, say good-bye to all of our civil liberties. and i include glen greenwald in that jack a lope. jim, you're sometimes on the side of this, i understand. that's the piece i was thinking. i think it might have been tomasky. talking about this. that's what he really fears is that if we get hit again, forget any of our civil liberties. that's why i...
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he's mentioning feinstein's legislation, i don't see it going away. you a looked to this earlier when you said that yeah, it's the democraties fighting back, showing some spine but it is something on which 90% of america is behind. they have to get behind some of the things that's 54% of america's behind, because that's still a majority. cenk: look, it's the soft bigotry of low expectations that we get excited that democrats fight for something that 90% of the country agrees on. >> that's exactly right. that's true. cenk: michael shure epic television host, host of the war room. thanks for joining us, man, we appreciate it. >> thanks. cenk:arian brotherhood suspected in the killings of three government officials. we've got one of their defense attorneys on the show when we come back to tell us what it's really like inside thearian brotherhood from his perspective, having represented them. really interesting interview coming up. >> no doubt about what would happen to you if you ever, ever betrayed us across our path. >> we'll kill your children, mother
he's mentioning feinstein's legislation, i don't see it going away. you a looked to this earlier when you said that yeah, it's the democraties fighting back, showing some spine but it is something on which 90% of america is behind. they have to get behind some of the things that's 54% of america's behind, because that's still a majority. cenk: look, it's the soft bigotry of low expectations that we get excited that democrats fight for something that 90% of the country agrees on. >> that's...
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now, i think the fact that you're seeing members like dianne feinstein in the senate coming out a little bit more aggressively on these does signal a change but keep in mind it is the leaders who control the floor action and i think on the democratic side, the fact that harry reid in the senate is sounding pretty tepid about these right now and letting his lieutenants chuck schumer from new york and feinstein take the lead on this does not bode well for this legislation in the senate. >> bill: the one measure that most people believe is the most important and may be the most politically possible, i guess is the universal background check. the assault weapons ban is important. the high-capacity magazines important. but it's hard to argue that if you have a criminal background check required at a gun dealer, you would not do the same at a gun show. maybe that's the one thing that can get through. >> right now that does seem like it's the provision that has the most support on the hill. that as well as a lot of these mental health traditions that the president has put forth. you might see a
now, i think the fact that you're seeing members like dianne feinstein in the senate coming out a little bit more aggressively on these does signal a change but keep in mind it is the leaders who control the floor action and i think on the democratic side, the fact that harry reid in the senate is sounding pretty tepid about these right now and letting his lieutenants chuck schumer from new york and feinstein take the lead on this does not bode well for this legislation in the senate. >>...
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. >> here is the thing that nancy pelosi, and feinstein and boxer what the gals won't tell you emotion won't make anybody safer. emotion won't protect the good guys' rights. and emotion is not leadership. the politics of emotion is the opposite of leadership. it's the manipulation of the people by the politicians for their own political ends. and it's not just self-serving, it's destructive and it must stop. >> john: that's exactly what you're doing! while ignoring the fact that ms. palin used a speech to raise the emotion of the crowd in that room what do you think she's trying to say? she's saying that real menus guns and women are emotional about things like dead children. am i right? >> yes. and thank sarah palin for dressing up. >> john: in her presidential shirt. >> every time she speaks somewhere a blackboard goes, oh that hurts. >> it's just the same--she's using the same pre-teen mean girl argument. it's us versus them. we're the good people and you're the bad people. look, i have nothing against her. she seems like a lady with a narcissistic lady with delusions of gran you're
. >> here is the thing that nancy pelosi, and feinstein and boxer what the gals won't tell you emotion won't make anybody safer. emotion won't protect the good guys' rights. and emotion is not leadership. the politics of emotion is the opposite of leadership. it's the manipulation of the people by the politicians for their own political ends. and it's not just self-serving, it's destructive and it must stop. >> john: that's exactly what you're doing! while ignoring the fact that ms....
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side, senators ron widen of oregon and mark udall of colorado are he defending it's defenders like feinstein and reid. no "n" response to widen's questioning of the nsa program. >> what i wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question. does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. there are case where is they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly. >> michael: this seems pretty witting to me, but today they called for more public hearings to investigate the issue and fellow democrat and senate majority whip dick durbin called it ill-fated and said it didn't have much chance of passing. we have mike papantonio, a host of ring of fire and a regular guest here on "the war room." mike, welcome back. >> how are you? >> michael: i'm well. there is so much to talk about. this issue should reflect poorly on the president but could it hurt republicans who are falling along the line here. >> when you have the wall street editorial page supporting the president, what
side, senators ron widen of oregon and mark udall of colorado are he defending it's defenders like feinstein and reid. no "n" response to widen's questioning of the nsa program. >> what i wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question. does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. there are case where is they could inadvertently perhaps...
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senator dianne feinstein tried to do exactly that in 2010. she fought very hard to include language allowing for the rejection of excess excessive rates but the hmos and insurances were successful in keeping that out of the bill. the best to approach this is to enact state legislation. states who have done this and use this authority are showing much lower rate increase than states in california where we don't have this authority. >> jennifer: more of a call to action. you leave the insurance companies on their own they'll jack up those rates. dave jones we hope you get the power to block it. we're grateful to you for coming inside "the war room." >> thank you. >> jennifer: never let it be said that congress let the december trust of the american people stand in their way. the latest on their efforts to double down on their record-breaking unpopularity next in "the war room." but when joint pain and stiffness from psoriatic arthritis hit even the smallest things became difficult. i finally understood what serious joint pain is like. i talked
senator dianne feinstein tried to do exactly that in 2010. she fought very hard to include language allowing for the rejection of excess excessive rates but the hmos and insurances were successful in keeping that out of the bill. the best to approach this is to enact state legislation. states who have done this and use this authority are showing much lower rate increase than states in california where we don't have this authority. >> jennifer: more of a call to action. you leave the...
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others include speaker boehner an feinstein call him a traitor. the man who leaked the papers call him a whistle blower. at this point in this long process how do you evaluate what mr. snowden is doing? >> by leaking the fact that the nsa is secretly gathering everybody's phone records on a daily basis millions and millions of innocent people data mining them and storing them without anybody's knowledge, that certainly is classified as a whistle blower. he gave away a lot of information that is useful to the american public, and not very useful to the russians or anybody else. so definitely whistle blower. that is as of the day that he gave away information on the u.s. what happens after that is a different call, and we have yet to see what is going to happen. right now he's stuck in limbo in the moscow airport, and you know who knows where he's going to go from here. he may stay in russia. he may go to ecuador iceland who knows. you have to take it on a day-to-day basis. >> john: indeed, while we're talking about him we're not talking about the n
others include speaker boehner an feinstein call him a traitor. the man who leaked the papers call him a whistle blower. at this point in this long process how do you evaluate what mr. snowden is doing? >> by leaking the fact that the nsa is secretly gathering everybody's phone records on a daily basis millions and millions of innocent people data mining them and storing them without anybody's knowledge, that certainly is classified as a whistle blower. he gave away a lot of information...
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not strange bedfellows when you have michael moore and glenn beck versus john boehner and die dianne feinstein, i'm a bit surprised we're not seeing more outrage from the rand pauls and the bernie sanders on this. >> they depend on the intelligence community to provide information and if the information is classified its hard to expect him to give a different answer, at least in public. i think the question is more was there any follow-up? did he clarify with the senators asking that question? >> john: clapper lying under oath is okay this time. i hope nobody tells that to president clinton. >>> rand paul has begun to fundraise on the issue. he sent out a mailer a saying dear patriot. do you think this will be an issue in the next few months and will be swept up as the popular white house scandal theme? >> i think they've been a little more protective around the nsa because they sport support the goals and the tactics of the nsa broadly. i do think that the arguments happening feel familiar. they feel like there is that efficiency there is a good reason to do these "dragnet" surveillance and e
not strange bedfellows when you have michael moore and glenn beck versus john boehner and die dianne feinstein, i'm a bit surprised we're not seeing more outrage from the rand pauls and the bernie sanders on this. >> they depend on the intelligence community to provide information and if the information is classified its hard to expect him to give a different answer, at least in public. i think the question is more was there any follow-up? did he clarify with the senators asking that...
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senator dianne feinstein is as well as her lgbt friends, could they hope that the lgbt community would forgive them as they always have and then move on. >> let's back up and look at what we're talking about. congress is no in session this week. they're all home. marco rubio who has been a champion in the gang of eight. he's home talking on conservative radio shows and in short talking to his base. when you're talking to your base you're campaigning. when you're in washington, hopefully you're governing. that's what we've seen rubio and the rest they have been governing. i think we'll see common sense prevail and real governing. i don't think that the provision, the equality provision for lgbt that senator leahy and by the way susan collins supports bipartisan senator collins from maine bipartisan support will be killed in committee. the hope is that it would be offered on the floor rather than in committee. i don't think we'll see it killed in committee. i think democrats republicans even conservative republicans are going to have to understand, and have to realize that the world is c
senator dianne feinstein is as well as her lgbt friends, could they hope that the lgbt community would forgive them as they always have and then move on. >> let's back up and look at what we're talking about. congress is no in session this week. they're all home. marco rubio who has been a champion in the gang of eight. he's home talking on conservative radio shows and in short talking to his base. when you're talking to your base you're campaigning. when you're in washington, hopefully...
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chair dianne feinstein insists that the casualties in that war are in single digits year by year. but according to the u.k. based bureau of universalism drone strikes may have killed as many as 3,500 people in pakistan. among them perhaps 500 civilians and nearly 200 children. in yemen where drones have been less active the casualty count could rise up to 4450 and nearly 50 civilians and ten children. yemeni activists who spent a year in an american high school describes how his people react the to a recent drone strike. >> when they think of america they think of the drones that hover over their heads ready to fire missiles at any time. what the militants previously failed to achieve one drone strike achieved in an instant. the drone strikes have the face of america to many yemenis. >> john: meanwhile senator rand paul who filibustered the any for 13 hours over over the possibility that drones could be used on american soil against americans. >> if someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and $50 in cash, i don't know care in a drone kills him or a policeman kills him. >
chair dianne feinstein insists that the casualties in that war are in single digits year by year. but according to the u.k. based bureau of universalism drone strikes may have killed as many as 3,500 people in pakistan. among them perhaps 500 civilians and nearly 200 children. in yemen where drones have been less active the casualty count could rise up to 4450 and nearly 50 civilians and ten children. yemeni activists who spent a year in an american high school describes how his people react...
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. >> you too senator feinstein. >> john: we can agree on some things but mr. snowden has to be extradited from hong kong first. >> even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded. you don't have to do anything wrong, you just have to fall under suspicion of someone even for a wrong call. >> john: let's go to which william ben benny who worked at the nsa for two years but left because of its expanding program. what a pleasure to have you on "viewpoint" tonight. >> thank you. >> john: thank you. let's start with the big question. do you think mr. snowden is correct when he says that the nsa is targeting everybody's communications. >> yes. there are several ways you can show that. one is the tim clemente when on cnn, he talked about the ability to go back and get phone conversations between. he's talking about all that information is collected and stored and from it they can pick and target anyone they want. >> john: now isn't the agency under the statute that created it supposed to focus purely and clearly on overseas communication, not
. >> you too senator feinstein. >> john: we can agree on some things but mr. snowden has to be extradited from hong kong first. >> even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded. you don't have to do anything wrong, you just have to fall under suspicion of someone even for a wrong call. >> john: let's go to which william ben benny who worked at the nsa for two years but left because of its expanding program. what a pleasure to have you on...
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democratic senators dianne feinstein and claire mccaskill compared him to joseph mccarthy who accused american citizens of being communist. but toning it down is not in his repertoire. he was at it again. just to give you flavor for the place, this is the poster for larue tactical where the senator chose to call president obama's gun control initiatives wrong. those are mild from what he said in the past. cruz argued that the gun show loophole does not exist. he's a loophole truther. >> there actually isn't the so-called gun show loophole. that does not exist. >> michael: reminder, this man has degrees from harvard and princeton. clearly republicans have not learned from the last election. when americans made it clear that they do not reward crazy. cruz is now headline the super bowl of the conservative right. craze rewards crazy. he was at ted cruz's speech today and he comes to us from austin. welcome to the war room. >> great to be here. >> michael: in his speech today did he change tack at all following the criticism he got for his behavior especially from his own party in the sen
democratic senators dianne feinstein and claire mccaskill compared him to joseph mccarthy who accused american citizens of being communist. but toning it down is not in his repertoire. he was at it again. just to give you flavor for the place, this is the poster for larue tactical where the senator chose to call president obama's gun control initiatives wrong. those are mild from what he said in the past. cruz argued that the gun show loophole does not exist. he's a loophole truther. >>...
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senator dianne feinstein has pushed them to finish the renovation of three buildings which would house 200 vets, and congressman henny waxman has protested against the commercial use of this land, but really it's in the hands of congress to push the va to stop being so reluctant and bureaucratic about this, and do what they ought to do to fulfill their mission regarding our veterans. >> john: john wiener, who reported this story for the nation, thank you for your reporting, and thank you for talking for us. when you talk about you what these men do for our country and how they put their lives on the line for our freedom, it's shocking that this is the treatment they come home to. i thank you gain thank you gain. >> thank you john. >> john: you may have to be more sob for drive a car. we'll have that up next. heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio jus
senator dianne feinstein has pushed them to finish the renovation of three buildings which would house 200 vets, and congressman henny waxman has protested against the commercial use of this land, but really it's in the hands of congress to push the va to stop being so reluctant and bureaucratic about this, and do what they ought to do to fulfill their mission regarding our veterans. >> john: john wiener, who reported this story for the nation, thank you for your reporting, and thank you...
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control learned that the house judiciary committee will take up many of their bills including dianne feinstein's assault weapon's ban the controversial one. this marks the first real step in getting the senate to vote on legislation that a majority of americans say they want. joining us now to discuss the state of the gun control debate is the one and only, brilliant thomas frank columnist for harp per's magazine, who wrote an it was nating piece titled "bloodsport" in this month's issue. he is the author of "pity the billionaire: the hard-times swindle and the unlikely comeback of the right." thomas, thank you so much for coming on the show. >> how are you tonight. >> i'm dynamite. i had a great day of resistance. i resisted pretty much the whole thing so i guess i win. what do you make of the argument that we can't have sensible gun laws in this country because then the country has a tyrannical government that will try to enslave its citizens? >> well, if that's the case your ar-15 is not going to help you very much. you're going to have to have something bigger than that because you're going
control learned that the house judiciary committee will take up many of their bills including dianne feinstein's assault weapon's ban the controversial one. this marks the first real step in getting the senate to vote on legislation that a majority of americans say they want. joining us now to discuss the state of the gun control debate is the one and only, brilliant thomas frank columnist for harp per's magazine, who wrote an it was nating piece titled "bloodsport" in this month's...
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senator dianne feinstein will tempt to push this issue every further, and there will be more pressure by the white house as well as pressure by reporting. during the hearing normas shooting occurred. that will keep the most pressure on the nra and keep them playing defense roar than rather than offense on this issue. >> john: many thanks to both of you for your time tonight. >> my pleasure j. >> cenk: former middle east ambassador james jeffrey joins us just ahead. >> i think it's brilliant. (vo) first, news and analysis with a washington perspective from an emmy winning insider. >> i know this stuff, and i love it. (vo) followed by humor and politics with a west coast edge. bill press and stephanie miller. >> what a way to start the day. >> john: welcome back to "viewpoint." i'm john fugelsang. it's time now for the thing of the day. and tonight's thing is the photo of the day. as we showed earlier. gabby giffords presented a few stirring words before the senate judiciary committee. her testimony was simple and heartfelt, and seen here is a photo of her handwritten ♪ for this speec
senator dianne feinstein will tempt to push this issue every further, and there will be more pressure by the white house as well as pressure by reporting. during the hearing normas shooting occurred. that will keep the most pressure on the nra and keep them playing defense roar than rather than offense on this issue. >> john: many thanks to both of you for your time tonight. >> my pleasure j. >> cenk: former middle east ambassador james jeffrey joins us just ahead. >> i...
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greatest properties they had the most beautiful post offices here in new york, and we can look at dianne feinstein's office husband for that. we'll look into it. >> micromanaged by congress but they don't get the taxpayer money from congress. it's a time bomb by the bush administration to make government smaller. >> john: exactly. >> and so everything that they want to see--yes--it comes to fruition. >> and all these people who sitting around all these year not attacking congress, congress attacks them. >> how does it make you feel? >> that was sent from you and it was anthrax. i regifted it. >> john: anyone who remembers the 80s and 90s postal workers are the people you do not want to upset. we'll talk about a very special birthday, and we're not talking about bob marley. we'll be right back. [ ♪ music ♪ ] break the ice with breath-freshening cooling crystals. ice breakers. running out of aerosols can get pretty frustrating. try the air wick freshmatic. it automatically fills the air with its captivating scent. just one freshmatic refill lasts as long as 55 aerosol cans. and with so many rich,
greatest properties they had the most beautiful post offices here in new york, and we can look at dianne feinstein's office husband for that. we'll look into it. >> micromanaged by congress but they don't get the taxpayer money from congress. it's a time bomb by the bush administration to make government smaller. >> john: exactly. >> and so everything that they want to see--yes--it comes to fruition. >> and all these people who sitting around all these year not attacking...
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. >> yeah, i mean, i think the american public has to be very frustrated as feinstein is that on the one hand the over classified c.i.a. program, now on the other hand they give this special access to the filmmakers. so the american public should really be upset about this. >> lizzie, discuss this happen often at the c.i.a. selective leaking for lack of a better word for propaganda purposes. >> i think in this case we're seeing the c.i.a. give specific information to further their own agenda that's the kind of thing that we're supposed to be doing in other countries not our own. you know, someone like me or other c.i.a. authors valerie plame, we all when we write books about the c.i.a. memoirs we have to send them to the c.i.a. to have them veteranned for any classified information. i have to chuckle because some of the information that is redacted from my book or bob bear's books or valerie plame you would think it was laughable that that was deemed classified when they obviously spilled all of the beans on the osama bin laden operation to hollywood before they shared that informati
. >> yeah, i mean, i think the american public has to be very frustrated as feinstein is that on the one hand the over classified c.i.a. program, now on the other hand they give this special access to the filmmakers. so the american public should really be upset about this. >> lizzie, discuss this happen often at the c.i.a. selective leaking for lack of a better word for propaganda purposes. >> i think in this case we're seeing the c.i.a. give specific information to further...
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senator dianne feinstein will tempt to push this issue every further, and there will be more pressure by the white house as well as pressure by reporting. during the hearing normas shooting occurred. that will keep the most pressure on the nra and keep them playing defense roar than rather than offense on this issue. >> john: many thanks to both of you for your time tonight. >> my pleasure j. >> cenk: f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? irene, drop the itch. we dropped the itch, you can too. with maximum strength scalpicin®. it's not a shampoo so you can stop intense i
senator dianne feinstein will tempt to push this issue every further, and there will be more pressure by the white house as well as pressure by reporting. during the hearing normas shooting occurred. that will keep the most pressure on the nra and keep them playing defense roar than rather than offense on this issue. >> john: many thanks to both of you for your time tonight. >> my pleasure j. >> cenk: f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f you know who is...
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dianne feinstein's ban did not pass on the floor vote because harry reid decided they were not going it to put it in their gun bill that they're going to put on the floor. it's an assaults weapons ban. over 200 weapons are still available to americans. but no, this was not good enough. the reason was because reid and other democratic senators were afraid of how it would play. max baucus of montana jon tester of montana. mark begich of ark heidi keitkamp and joe maughan. they're running scared. if they all band together and said you know what we're going to do this, they would be with the american people. it turns out this time they were not with the american people. and then of course "abc news" washington poll post conducted march 7th shows 57% of americans support assault weapons ban. 41% oppose it. 57% of americans support it. why cannot the senate get that through their heads? why can't they sit there and say, you know what, this is what the people want. let's vote on it. 57 is the smallest majority for any of these gun laws. we've heard 91%--91% are in favor of universal backgro
dianne feinstein's ban did not pass on the floor vote because harry reid decided they were not going it to put it in their gun bill that they're going to put on the floor. it's an assaults weapons ban. over 200 weapons are still available to americans. but no, this was not good enough. the reason was because reid and other democratic senators were afraid of how it would play. max baucus of montana jon tester of montana. mark begich of ark heidi keitkamp and joe maughan. they're running scared....
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that cost an awkward exchange with an exchange with debra feinstein. >> you're going to return the tangible gifts that were given to you, does that include that rolex watch. >> everything that i have ever received from this particular donor because of the concerns that have been raised by members of the public, and to do everything i can to restore trust with the people of virginia. my daughter, jeanine, on her own, returned her wedding gift. >> just to be clear, the rolex is going back? >> all those gifts i have, including that, yes. >> okay. >> john: through his teeth. okay, so the watch is going back. it's not a story. >> well, yeah, it's funny because it's not surprising that he won't disclose his gifts. this is someone who when he declared history month forgot to include slavery. and here is a guy who not only forgot to mention slavery, introduced the women had to have transvaginal ultrasound if they want to have an abortion. yet what finally brings hum down is this, like al capone being indicted for tax invasion. >> john: i don't know if this will bring him down, he's running against
that cost an awkward exchange with an exchange with debra feinstein. >> you're going to return the tangible gifts that were given to you, does that include that rolex watch. >> everything that i have ever received from this particular donor because of the concerns that have been raised by members of the public, and to do everything i can to restore trust with the people of virginia. my daughter, jeanine, on her own, returned her wedding gift. >> just to be clear, the rolex is...
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the chair woman, dianne feinstein was saying these kinds of circumstances we can only imagine in the context of a severe terrorest attack that if a drone strike were to be used it would be used in a 9/11 kind of scenario and that's the kind of circumstance in which -- >> bill: it is still pretty scary stuff, but in any event, all of that drone-related opposition to brennan doesn't seem to have materialized. >> well, just hours before the vote, dianne feinstein announced that she had made an arrangement with the white house for the white house to bring in these legal memos. so the white house brought in these memos. didn't allow them to take any notes and then took them away. billion oh, really? >> so members got to take a look at the legal briefing that formed the backbone -- >> bill: and reporters didn't get to see them. >> we were not even allowed near the room. staff members weren't even allowed to take notes. >> bill: all right. so brennan is going to get confirmed. chuck hagel was confirmed by a much more narrow margin than will be for john brennan. hagel has now taken his place
the chair woman, dianne feinstein was saying these kinds of circumstances we can only imagine in the context of a severe terrorest attack that if a drone strike were to be used it would be used in a 9/11 kind of scenario and that's the kind of circumstance in which -- >> bill: it is still pretty scary stuff, but in any event, all of that drone-related opposition to brennan doesn't seem to have materialized. >> well, just hours before the vote, dianne feinstein announced that she had...
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politicalization of the whole outfit, but i think everybody else has expressed that including senator feinstein on sunday. >> indeed, they have and will continue to. the report dealt with five questions regarding the benghazi attack all of them involving security. based on your findings were the security a failure on the part of the state department or the congressional funding process or both of the above? >> i think in some ways both of the above. we pinpointed where we felt the leadership failings were in the state department at the assistant secretary and below fairly high up in the department. we also noted programs that the congress had undertaken to fund back in 1998 to deal with the nairobi bombings were not funded over the ten-year period which was the intention to do so, and we recommended they be fully funded, and we recommended sol other funding and supported other funding that the state edit wanted to move on immediately. >> john: of course, chairman issa said he found the error incad adequate because it didn't find anyone at a high level of the state level or anybody else to a fai
politicalization of the whole outfit, but i think everybody else has expressed that including senator feinstein on sunday. >> indeed, they have and will continue to. the report dealt with five questions regarding the benghazi attack all of them involving security. based on your findings were the security a failure on the part of the state department or the congressional funding process or both of the above? >> i think in some ways both of the above. we pinpointed where we felt the...
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all this data, and the name pops up like you name it, stephen strasbourg or paris hilton or dianne feinstein and someone thinks, i wonder what she's saying, i wonder what they're talking about. he said there is total confidence and no abuse whatsoever. that's the first thing i found hard to swallow. then he said i'm going to work with congress to do this. i'm going to work with congress for greater transparency. i'm going to work with congress to figure out how to better explain it. work with congress? that was almost laugh-out-loud funny. he's working with congress on immigration reform. how is that going? he's working with congress on gun safety. how is that going? he's working with congress about obama care, how did that go. this congress is impossible to work with. the idea of bases your hopes on more transparency with this congress ain't going to happen. and then the president said, and i really found this a reach--all this talk about national security and privacy, all this conversation we're happening right now, it would have happened without edward snowden. no way. no freakin' way. we
all this data, and the name pops up like you name it, stephen strasbourg or paris hilton or dianne feinstein and someone thinks, i wonder what she's saying, i wonder what they're talking about. he said there is total confidence and no abuse whatsoever. that's the first thing i found hard to swallow. then he said i'm going to work with congress to do this. i'm going to work with congress for greater transparency. i'm going to work with congress to figure out how to better explain it. work with...
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and thirdly, you have a very, very powerful advocate in dianne feinstein. someone who is in the room when gun violence occurred and basically had to carry out this sort of mandate this tragedy. if you can't listen to that voice which ted cruz made sure that didn't happen, if you can't listen to that voice and you can't get that voice with the authority and the wait and the resonance that it has to move an assault weapons ban forward when all of the evidence shows it is very positive and has an effect, that's part of the problem what's going on in the senate. >> john: amen. kim, we're almost out of time. i notice you have an easter egg. why the you bring that? i'm guessing it is not a gift for me. >> this is an interesting easter egg. it is a chocolate egg banned in america. >> john: really? >> to protect our children. there is a potentially small toy in here that could choke our children. however, this is a chocolate easter egg. >> john: that's banned. >> it is beloved in canada and europe. kids safely eat them throughout the rest of the world. we cannot ge
and thirdly, you have a very, very powerful advocate in dianne feinstein. someone who is in the room when gun violence occurred and basically had to carry out this sort of mandate this tragedy. if you can't listen to that voice which ted cruz made sure that didn't happen, if you can't listen to that voice and you can't get that voice with the authority and the wait and the resonance that it has to move an assault weapons ban forward when all of the evidence shows it is very positive and has an...
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feinstein, mike rogers standing together locked arm oh, no, no, we get to look at your stuff. when they looked into our stuff under bush, we were only going to listen to phone calls of terrorists instead we were living to phone sex calls of military in iraq. >> now there is a joined fight. we know the republicans are going to go after that is on the opposing side. knowledge is for liberty. but we knew back in the last administration they didn't care about that. >> cenk: no, no, look jayar-- >> a political fight that they joined for political purposes. you know rand paul doesn't care about that. >> cenk: no, democrats, also the same swing. so in the last administration they cared so much about privacy! now they've got a bigger swing o who gives a damn about privacy. it's my guy, obama i love him. >> that's not what democrats are saying into that's definitely what the democrats are saying. i'll give you the poll numbers when we come back. i'll give them to you too. when we come back we'll have a former c.i.a. agent help us break this down. there she is lindsay. we'll come right
feinstein, mike rogers standing together locked arm oh, no, no, we get to look at your stuff. when they looked into our stuff under bush, we were only going to listen to phone calls of terrorists instead we were living to phone sex calls of military in iraq. >> now there is a joined fight. we know the republicans are going to go after that is on the opposing side. knowledge is for liberty. but we knew back in the last administration they didn't care about that. >> cenk: no, no, look...
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bill writes if you missed hardball dianne feinstein was great. in the opening segment on chris matthews dianne feinstein gently chastised those, and rand don't drone any a cafe was a good way to discuss drone policy and then moving on to a serious issue. will bunch tweeted and asked if ranked paul would have joined the filibuster on the civil rights act. [ applause ] >> stephanie: yeah rand paul standing on his principles it depends on which one. but that was a ridiculous hypothetical. jay carney read the letter from eric holder. talking about somebody engaging in decent in the vietnam war. it's not the same thing. >> does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an american not engaged in come bot on american soil, the answer is no. >> but without that clarification it could have been legally read as the same thing. >> stephanie: yeah, and that opened the door to filibuster reform, perhaps. [ bell chimes ] [ applause ] >> now harry reid is saying, wait a minute. >> stephanie: now you have john mccain and the southern be
bill writes if you missed hardball dianne feinstein was great. in the opening segment on chris matthews dianne feinstein gently chastised those, and rand don't drone any a cafe was a good way to discuss drone policy and then moving on to a serious issue. will bunch tweeted and asked if ranked paul would have joined the filibuster on the civil rights act. [ applause ] >> stephanie: yeah rand paul standing on his principles it depends on which one. but that was a ridiculous hypothetical....
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senator feinstein had some thoughts this morning. >> i don't think that somebody who is lacking a moral compass really sets a role model, or really will provide the kind of leadership that san diegoans want. >> stephanie: how is the two-week therapy going? >> two whole weeks. >> he's not even a half a week done yet. >> stephanie: didn't have a deadline of like yesterday to resign or they would do a recall. >> let's replace bob with lindsay lohan. >> stephanie: yeah, we thought some sort of dog shock collar thing, no, don't touch her. [ electrical buzzing ] >> okay. i won't do it anymore. >> a head lock alarm. >> stephanie: yeah, a low jack for the head lock. >> apparently one woman said he caressed her cheek and said, hey, do you have a man in your life. >> stephanie: ahhhhh! [ electrical buzzing ] >> and he's 70. and he looks like that. >> stephanie: and he bet he did it really slow and creepy. >> yeah. >> stephanie: ahhhhh! >> wow. another woman said that he slobbered on her cheek. like licked her cheek -- >> stephanie: they should think about that a perv collar, sort of like a dog co
senator feinstein had some thoughts this morning. >> i don't think that somebody who is lacking a moral compass really sets a role model, or really will provide the kind of leadership that san diegoans want. >> stephanie: how is the two-week therapy going? >> two whole weeks. >> he's not even a half a week done yet. >> stephanie: didn't have a deadline of like yesterday to resign or they would do a recall. >> let's replace bob with lindsay lohan. >>...
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dianne feinstein said, quote:see, that brings up another good point, guys, which is if you knew you were in trouble before, and you're looking at the phones e-mails, and, etc. they put the drones in the guy and watch you all stay. >> unman aircraft watching you checking out your heat radiation, living to what you are saying. >> cenk: listen, no, if you have nothing to hide from stalin, you should be fine with this investigation. >> injures recently i think i heard it through the courts, i think i was at a jury summit and i remember the judge for some reason was pointing out they don't do the pictures on top of red lights any more, at least here in california. >> yes they do. in culver city, but not in l.a. county. >> yes, i knew there was a reason i didn't want to run a red light. but they don't do it any more. i thought what is this taking pictures. i've seen the lights going off when there isn't even a red light. >> cenk: i've seen that, too. we are conditioned to things and we think it must be a good reason. >> there could be areas where they say this area is mined by aircraft and i t
dianne feinstein said, quote:see, that brings up another good point, guys, which is if you knew you were in trouble before, and you're looking at the phones e-mails, and, etc. they put the drones in the guy and watch you all stay. >> unman aircraft watching you checking out your heat radiation, living to what you are saying. >> cenk: listen, no, if you have nothing to hide from stalin, you should be fine with this investigation. >> injures recently i think i heard it through...
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merkley and rand paul on the republican side but the great majority of congress is on the wrong side, feinstein saying that this is how we protect america we must protect the homeland. i was like thank you the senator, i appreciate it. it was chilling, her language. then lindsay graham, who has found every conceivable way to attack the president. this time, spy ounce shred the constitution, go for it. >> i hope the american people appreciate that the way you protect the homeland is you try to find out what the enemy's up to. i'm a verizon customer. it doesn't bother me one bit for the national security administration to have my phone number, because what they're trying to do is find out what terrorist groups we know about and individuals and who the hell they're calling and if my number pops up on some terrorist phone, i'm confident that the fisa court is not going to allow my phone calls to be monitored by my government unless you and others can prove to them that i'm up to a terrorist activity through a probably cause standard. cenk: so spy on me, spy on me, and, you know, democracy the repub
merkley and rand paul on the republican side but the great majority of congress is on the wrong side, feinstein saying that this is how we protect america we must protect the homeland. i was like thank you the senator, i appreciate it. it was chilling, her language. then lindsay graham, who has found every conceivable way to attack the president. this time, spy ounce shred the constitution, go for it. >> i hope the american people appreciate that the way you protect the homeland is you...
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. >> caller: diane feinstein. >> bill: she said he should be tried an enemy combatant. i challenge you on that jeanine. i doubt that very very much. i'll check that out. diane feinstein said that labelling this guy as an enemy combatant, quote, would be unconstitutional. >> bill: oh, all right. oh, my god, jeanine. don't tell me you were wrong. yeah, you were. please know your facts before you call. avery friedman legal expert on cnn and here on the "full court press" joins us in the next segment, and we'll get the official word from him as a trained lawyer about how this suspect should be tried here on the "full court press," stay tuned. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show," live on your radio and current tv. ♪ (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. (vo) she's joy behar. >>current will let me say anything. ♪ >> announcer: radio meets television the "bill press show," now on current tv. >> bill: all right. thirteen minutes before the top of the hour here
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i would support this legislation that dianne feinstein used to talk about where you could trace by the barrel of a gun nips ammunition used you could trace it back to where that gun was sold. any of those measures. i don't think i have met one yet that i wouldn't support. but yet, again, i recognize not all of us are going to agree. gun owners grooent t that's part of the did debachlt but don't you think we could all agree on one thing? couldn't we all agree to keep guns out much the hands of kids? i mean isn't that -- like is that too much to ask? well, apparently it is. we found out over the weekend this poor little two-year-old girl was buried down in bushingsville, kentucky. you know the storyerksville, kentucky. you know the story. the grandmother -- get this. the grandmother takes them shopping to fred's super dollar store down in berksville kentucky and it's described in "the new york times" this morning as saying, like any grandmother, she was buying them anything they wanted. so she bought a 4-year-old what's called a cricket. it's a rifle designed specifically for little kids
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>> i saw senator feinstein. she knows it's an uphill battle. but she is determined to get it done. she called the nra, venal. a great word. >> this is "the bill press show." going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ music ] >> chatting with you live at currents.com/bill press. this is "the bill press show" live and on current tv. >> thirty-three minutes after the hour on this "full-court press," on a monday morning, january 28th. good to have you with us today. michael tomasky, columnist with the daily beast here in studio as a friend of bill among other things, we have been talking with michael about redistricting and republican efforts to re-draw the lines. redraw t
>> i saw senator feinstein. she knows it's an uphill battle. but she is determined to get it done. she called the nra, venal. a great word. >> this is "the bill press show." going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to...
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but this case has allowed us to see john boehner siding with diane fine stripe against -- feinstein with against michael moore and glenn beck. we'll talk about it with congressman keith for exampleison. snowden said the country that most aligns with his values is iceland. an icelandic member of parliament who helped release the wikileaks video has offered support but it is not all that easy to seek asylum there. we'll speak live with her. and plan b is now available to any woman of any age over the counter and some conservatives are upset that this is no longer a country where a teenage girl's life is automatically ruined when they become pregnant. we'll discuss that with the greatest political comedy panel in history. today is it is the birthday of the late jacques cousteau and gene wilder whoa is still alive call your agent gene, get back in the game. this is "viewpoint." >> john: i'm john fuglesang. this is "viewpoint." thank you so much for joining us tonight. our polarized political world is splitting again over the government surveillance programs revealed by edward snowden. and sn
but this case has allowed us to see john boehner siding with diane fine stripe against -- feinstein with against michael moore and glenn beck. we'll talk about it with congressman keith for exampleison. snowden said the country that most aligns with his values is iceland. an icelandic member of parliament who helped release the wikileaks video has offered support but it is not all that easy to seek asylum there. we'll speak live with her. and plan b is now available to any woman of any age over...
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and you voted for dianne feinstein, and it's like okay. you can change that i guess. >> caller: and next election they probably should. when they talk about transparency, we can't honestly be 100% transparent in the government, because that's like showing your hand at a poker game. >> stephanie: mark udoll said it's very, very difficult to have a transparent debate about a secret court order based on secret interpretations of the law. if the american people see what i see, then the terrorists know too. >> caller: right. and i don't think people are that much overly concerned with privacy, because we do offer it freely. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: and that plays into the whole thing too. and older americans that aren't aztec knowledge, i'm putting on my twitter feed that i'm going to the bathroom you know, they do feel stronger about privacy issues than the younger generation, and there does have to be a balance, but i do think that we all have to use common sense. >> caller: i know it's interesting because i'm not personally on faceboo
and you voted for dianne feinstein, and it's like okay. you can change that i guess. >> caller: and next election they probably should. when they talk about transparency, we can't honestly be 100% transparent in the government, because that's like showing your hand at a poker game. >> stephanie: mark udoll said it's very, very difficult to have a transparent debate about a secret court order based on secret interpretations of the law. if the american people see what i see, then the...
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but she didn't or dianne feinstein for barbara boxer. but they did not. chuck schumer? sure. rand paul did. fran is in springfield missouri. hi fran. >> caller: actually, die trust rand paul -- i don't trust rand paul. ever since the atf was practically debunked, no one is mentioning the state militias. they're the ones stockpiling the assault weapons. they're rand paul's friends. >> bill: well, look, i don't want to get into a debate about rand paul. that's beside the point okay. i said he's crazy as a loon but he's right about drones. he is right about the filibuster. the filibuster is a real thing. we should get up and talk as long as you can. that's what it is all about. we as american citizens have to be concerned about this expanded use of drones. you may trust president obama to do the right thing. but he isn't going to be in the white house forever. if we give him this expanded authority to use drones to kill american citizens on american soil, let's say some nut like mitt romney were in the white house. what do you think he would do with that authority? >> announcer:
but she didn't or dianne feinstein for barbara boxer. but they did not. chuck schumer? sure. rand paul did. fran is in springfield missouri. hi fran. >> caller: actually, die trust rand paul -- i don't trust rand paul. ever since the atf was practically debunked, no one is mentioning the state militias. they're the ones stockpiling the assault weapons. they're rand paul's friends. >> bill: well, look, i don't want to get into a debate about rand paul. that's beside the point okay. i...
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he has attacked senator dianne feinstein and senator barbara boxer among others and he is a guest of a member of congress tonight at the state of the union address. unfreakin' believable. here he is, sounds a little hard but you'll hear it. here he is at a concert last year where first of all -- he's got a machine gun on stage. okay. so he's a member of the nra. who cares he's a member of the nra. that's not the problem. that's not the issue. who cares he's against gun control. that's not the issue. the issue is his language and his actions. here he is on stage with a machine gun talking about the president of the united states. >> obama. obama is a piece of [ bleep ] clear cheer. [ cheering ] >> bill: in case you can't quite make it up, he might want to suck on one of these a machine gun. you punk. obama, he's nothing but a piece of crap except he didn't say crap. this is the president of the united states. okay. then he goes on to talk about the secretary of state, hillary clinton. [ indiscernible ] >> bill: hillary you might want to ride one of these again, machine gun into the su
he has attacked senator dianne feinstein and senator barbara boxer among others and he is a guest of a member of congress tonight at the state of the union address. unfreakin' believable. here he is, sounds a little hard but you'll hear it. here he is at a concert last year where first of all -- he's got a machine gun on stage. okay. so he's a member of the nra. who cares he's a member of the nra. that's not the problem. that's not the issue. who cares he's against gun control. that's not the...
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he said exactly what mccain and feinstein everybody else is saying. first of all this is a composite character. this guy -- so what they're saying is the guy that it's based on is not the guy we got the information from. so it creates the misperception that torture works. so anyway -- [ ♪ battle hymn of republic ♪ ] ali, he wrote the book, the black banners. he said i watched zero dark thirty not as a former fbi special agent who spent time prosecuting al-qaeda but as one who enjoys movies. as history, it is bunk. he makes the point i think a film is supposed to be based on events that should be more accurate. it is not saying you don't have a first amendment right but you're going this is an actual historical event. he is afraid to will create the misimpression this is how this went down. the film opens with the words based on firsthand accounts of actual events but the filmmakers pass fiction off as history when a character named amare is tortured and implies gives up information that leads to osama bin laden. amar is a composite character who b
he said exactly what mccain and feinstein everybody else is saying. first of all this is a composite character. this guy -- so what they're saying is the guy that it's based on is not the guy we got the information from. so it creates the misperception that torture works. so anyway -- [ ♪ battle hymn of republic ♪ ] ali, he wrote the book, the black banners. he said i watched zero dark thirty not as a former fbi special agent who spent time prosecuting al-qaeda but as one who enjoys movies....
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nobody is -- >> bill: and dianne feinstein. diane feinstein. so essentially, it is a big story that has kind of landed with a thud on much of the american people. >> bill: do you think that if it were not that particularly meant again young people have already surrendered every bit of privacy they had willingly and eagerly, right, on facebook and all of the other sites that there might be a little more concern about it? >> you would think but it seems as if -- it is like a stock market already accounting for something -- a company is going to announce. there was an incredible national judicial poll, by coincidence was conducted a few days before the snowden revelation. 85% of americans said that they knew not just corporations and strangers but that the government was looking at their e-mail among other things and tracking them. that kind of sense already. snowden was pushing open an open door and people have not been angry about it. sadly, in my view. they've been like well, that's the way it is. it's not just about fighting terrorism. the pre
nobody is -- >> bill: and dianne feinstein. diane feinstein. so essentially, it is a big story that has kind of landed with a thud on much of the american people. >> bill: do you think that if it were not that particularly meant again young people have already surrendered every bit of privacy they had willingly and eagerly, right, on facebook and all of the other sites that there might be a little more concern about it? >> you would think but it seems as if -- it is like a...
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he's talking to dianne feinstein and man does she hammer him back. >> let me make a couple of points in response. one, i'm not a sixth grader. senator, i've been on this committee for 20 years. i was a mayor for nine years. i walked in, i saw people shot. i've looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons. i've seen the bullets that implode. in sandy hook, youngsters were dismembered. it is fine you want to lecture me on the constitution. i appreciate it. just know i've been here for a long time. i've passed on a number of bills. i study the constitution myself. i am reasonably well-educated. i thank you for the lecture. >> bill: oh wow! he attacks a democrat but he also attacks and makes fun of his fellow republicans. talking at a town hall about his fellow republicans who didn't have the courage he says to vote against universal background checks. >> there are a lot of people who don't like to be held accountable. but they said listen, before you did this, the politics of it were great. the dems were the bad guys, the republicans were the good guys. now we all look like a
he's talking to dianne feinstein and man does she hammer him back. >> let me make a couple of points in response. one, i'm not a sixth grader. senator, i've been on this committee for 20 years. i was a mayor for nine years. i walked in, i saw people shot. i've looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons. i've seen the bullets that implode. in sandy hook, youngsters were dismembered. it is fine you want to lecture me on the constitution. i appreciate it. just know i've been...
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when someone like a dianne feinstein says something you're right. it does affect me differently than when louie gohmert says something. that's something we can all agree on is louie gohmert is a douche. latest exhibit a. wosh he told a witness who ended her pregnancy after being advised the fetus was brain dead, she should have carried the child to term. >> what's the po ?int. >> stephanie: that louie gomer is the brain dead. that's my point. and also a douche. ♪ little douchebag ♪ ♪ little douchebag ♪ ♪ his name is louie gohmert ♪ ♪ and he don't even try ♪ ♪ he's my little douchebag ♪ ♪ he don't know a whole lot ♪ ♪ he's got his paranoid friends in the house on the floor ♪ ♪ it's crazy because he grew up around lead-based paint ♪ >> i'm not saying louie gohmert is a bad guy ♪ ♪ seems like dumb has been dumbed to death ♪ ♪ he's my little douchebag ♪ ♪ he don't know a whole lot ♪ ♪ he's my little douchebag ♪ >> stephanie: thank you rocky mountain mike. all right eric boehlert from media matters for am
when someone like a dianne feinstein says something you're right. it does affect me differently than when louie gohmert says something. that's something we can all agree on is louie gohmert is a douche. latest exhibit a. wosh he told a witness who ended her pregnancy after being advised the fetus was brain dead, she should have carried the child to term. >> what's the po ?int. >> stephanie: that louie gomer is the brain dead. that's my point. and also a douche. ♪ little douchebag...
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senator feinstein has introduced legislation or soon will to renew it this year. the president has always said he supports a renewal. david keen the new president of the nra yesterday threw cold weather. >> you don't want to bet your house on the outcome, but i would say that the likely they are not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban. >> after newtown and whatever aurora, colorado? no assault weapons ban? >> you have to understand the nra leadership they are in the gun-selling business? >> they represent the gun manufacturers? >> represent the gun manufacturers and part of those sales, a big part of that market is trying to appeal to the people who by the way, may already have 10 ak-47s. >> we see the spike in gun sales that's been so reported. >> that's what a lot of these sales are. people who already are heavenly armed and now they are going to be more heavily armed. it's a bad financial decision for their household probably to advance that much. it's great for public safety. >> that's important to know. the percentage of american house homicide tha
senator feinstein has introduced legislation or soon will to renew it this year. the president has always said he supports a renewal. david keen the new president of the nra yesterday threw cold weather. >> you don't want to bet your house on the outcome, but i would say that the likely they are not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban. >> after newtown and whatever aurora, colorado? no assault weapons ban? >> you have to understand the nra leadership they are in the...
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. >> also on the hill today, senator diane feinstein and new york representative carolyn murphy are introducing an assault weapons ban. sources say props will include a bush master rifle, which is one of the weapons used in the shooting in nowtown, connecticut. the members of congress have cooperated fully with police. it would stop the sale importation and manufacturing of more than 150 types of guns and place a limit on high-capacity magazines. guns and magazines owned before the ban will be grandfathered in, but kept track of through a national registry. we'll be back with more stephanie after the break. stay with us. (vo) current's award winning original series is back with an all new episode straight from the headlines. (vo) in the minefield of the nation's gun control debate, this could be the most polarizing issue. >> anybody can claim stand your ground and they could get away with murder. but when joint pain and stiffness from psoriatic arthritis hit even the smallest things became difficult. i finally understood what serious joint pain is like. i talked to my rheumatologist and he pres
. >> also on the hill today, senator diane feinstein and new york representative carolyn murphy are introducing an assault weapons ban. sources say props will include a bush master rifle, which is one of the weapons used in the shooting in nowtown, connecticut. the members of congress have cooperated fully with police. it would stop the sale importation and manufacturing of more than 150 types of guns and place a limit on high-capacity magazines. guns and magazines owned before the ban...
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. >> stephanie: it's like dianne feinstein says when you put your finger in the bullet holes trying to stop the bleeding -- >> caller: that's exactly what it is like. and when the republicans can actually see the destruction that this can do -- i don't know maybe that -- i don't know. maybe that would change their mind. and what is the problem with just having ten bullets in a freakin' round? >> you can do a lot of damage with ten rounds. >> but what if 15 guys are breaking in your house. >> stephanie: you know what you are the smartest girl in class. i'm giving you a gift card for sherry's berries. >> caller: oh, thank you. i just love ya. >> stephanie: they are giant -- they are gynormous -- >> they are as big as a baby's fist. >> stephanie: they are delight. okay. the president. >> obama: the vast majority of americans, including a majority of gun owners support requiring criminal background checks for anyone trying to buy a gun. >> stephanie: they are jazzy chocolately fizzel for shizel. >> oh, really. >> stephanie: the princess is here. sherry there louisiana. you are on the "step
. >> stephanie: it's like dianne feinstein says when you put your finger in the bullet holes trying to stop the bleeding -- >> caller: that's exactly what it is like. and when the republicans can actually see the destruction that this can do -- i don't know maybe that -- i don't know. maybe that would change their mind. and what is the problem with just having ten bullets in a freakin' round? >> you can do a lot of damage with ten rounds. >> but what if 15 guys are...